Kyrie Orbis factor Warning!

Warning! I think there are few details worth reviewing here, but I did not want to modify this by myself without submitting it to discussion. (1) Shouldn’t the text be the one of the original Fontevraud manuscript ? The Stingl Orbis Factor is already published elsewere inside GregoBase, I don’t see why the Fontevraud text had to be altered. (2) Shouldn’t the music be the one from the manuscript, and not the transcription of one particular (though beautiful) interpretation of it ? (3) The remarks section refers to an \"untexted reference line of music after the first verse\". The line of music quoted here does not belong to the Orbis Factor, it is the ending of the previous piece in the manuscript. (4) In relation to points 2 and 3 : melodies for the \"kyrie eleison\" and \"Christe eleison\" parts exists in the manuscript right after the troped Orbis Factor, but with different ligatures and with one less note for the \"kyrie eleison\" parts. Maybe those could be used instead of a simple duplication of the melodies of the Orbis Factor ?

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Recorded by Ensemble Organum, Graduel d'Aliénor de Bretagne: Plain-chant et polyphonies des XIIIe et XIVe siècles, conducted by Marcel Pérès (Arles: Harmonia Mundi, 1993).

For ‘Kyrie eleison’ and ‘Christe eleison’, the manuscript provides only an untexted reference line of music after the first verse. This edition follows Ensemble Organum’s interpretation of this as a prompt for repetition of each verse’s music, as an eighteenfold Kyrie. It may alternatively be a direction for untroped performance as a ninefold Kyrie.

Text emended with reference to Anton Stingl, Tropen zum Kyrie im Graduale Romanum (St. Ottilien, Oberbay: EOS Verlag, 2011), 45–49. The source manuscript reads ‘pietatis rex’ instead of ‘pietatis fons’; and ‘uiuamus uite’ for ‘uiuamus in te’.



language: Latin;
office-part: kyrie;
date: 1250s;
manuscript: Fontevraud Gradual;
manuscript-reference: Limoges, Bibliothèque francophone multimédia, MS 2, fols 247v–248r;
transcription-date: 20200102;

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