'Alma Redemptoris Mater': The Little Clergeon's Song
- Author / Editor
- Davidson, Audrey.
'Alma Redemptoris Mater': The Little Clergeon's Song
- Published
- Studies in Medieval Culture 4 (1974): 459-66.
- Description
- The text of the "Alma Redemptoris Mater" in PrT may have been written by Hermannus Contractus. A reconstruction of its tune must depend on the Use of Sarum. This particular text and this tune are especially appropriate to the themes of the tale.
- Reprinted in Aspects of Early Music and Performance (New York: AMS Press, 2008), pp. 61-73.
- Alternative Title
- Aspects of Early Music and Performance.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Prioress and Her Tale.