A Coup in the Cathedral around the Year 1000

Co-produced by Dialogos and Outhere Music France. Arcana, 605.

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Principal sources

• Winchester Troper: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 473, XI^th c.; Oxford, Bodlean Library, Bodley 775, XI^th c.
• Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi, London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius D. IV, XI-XII^th c., Wulfstan of Winchester. The Life of St Aethelwold, edited and translated by Michael Lapidge and Michael Winterbottom, Oxford University Press – Clarendon Press, 1991; musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić.

Tracklisting

1. Aetheluuolde, Aetheluuolde!
   Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
   Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
2. Alleluia. Iustus germinabit
   Alleluia en organum
   Winchester Troper
   Transcription: Susan Rankin
3. Blasphematores Dei
   Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
   Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić & Norbert Rodenkirchen
4. Iuxta vestibulum
   Antienne
   Paris, BNF, lat 18010, Gr. Corbie, XII^th c.
   Transcription: Katarina Livljanić
5. De Abbandonia
   Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
   Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
6. Servite Domino
   Communion
   Paris, BNF, lat 18010, Gr. Corbie, XII^th c.
   Transcription: Katarina Livljanić
7. Cur foris moramur?
   Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
   Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
8. Beatus vir
   Sequela
   Winchester Troper
   Transcription & reconstruction: Norbert Rodenkirchen
9. Excommunicatio Leonis papae
   Text: Monte Cassino, ms. 451, XI^thc.
   Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
10. Ex invidia
    Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
    Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
11. Berta vetula
    Sequela
    Winchester Troper
    Transcription : Norbert Rodenkirchen
12. Ubi est fides tua?
    Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
    Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
13. Deus, deus meus
    Tractus in organum
    Winchester Troper
    Transcription: Susan Rankin
14. Invocation & Ploratum
    Sequela
    Winchester Troper
    Invocation: melody & improvisation – Albrecht Maurer
    Ploratum – transcription & reconstruction – Norbert Rodenkirchen
15. Accensa fides
    Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
    Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
16. Genealogia Domini nostri Jesu Christi
    Vienna University, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, nr. 4, XIII^th c.
    Transcription: Katarina Livljanić
17. Bucca excelsa & Improvisation
    Sequela
    Winchester Troper
    Transcription and reconstruction: Norbert Rodenkirchen
18. Visiones, somnia
    Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi
    Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
19. Laude celebret
    Prosa for St Aethelwold (Prosa for the sequence: Via lux)
    Winchester Troper
    Transcription: Susan Rankin

Programme prepared during a residence at AMUZ, Antwerpen, Belgium, in 2018.

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