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The feast of fools.

Title
The feast of fools.
Author
Pickett, Philip
Publication
London : Editions de l\u0027Oiseau-Lyre, [1992], ℗1992.

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New London Consort, performer. http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/prf
Description
1 audio disc (75 min., 19 sec.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Alternative Title
  • Fête des fous
  • Narrenfest
Subject
  • Feast of Fools > Songs and music
  • Sacred vocal music
  • Vespers (Music)
  • Masses
Note
  • A reconstruction of The Feast of Fools of the subdeacons or lower clergy of the High and late Middle Ages, based on the Beauvais Officium Circumcisionis and the Missal des Fous of Sens.
  • Eds. and performing versions by Philip Pickett.
  • Compact disc.
  • Program notes and Latin texts with English translations (26 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Event (note)
  • Recorded Feb. 1990, Temple Church, London.
Language (note)
  • Sung in Latin.
Contents
First vespers (10:06) -- Music from the Office (including Salvatoris hodie by Perotin) (9:52) -- Drinking bout in the cathedral porch (3:05) -- Mass of the asses, drunkards and gamblers (20:35) -- Music from the Office (11:29) -- Second vespers ; The ceremony of the Baculus (12:18) -- Banquet (5:44) -- Processional (1:56).
OCLC
  • ocm68751743
  • 68751743
  • SCSB-5648285
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries