An Anthology of Music Fragments from the Low Countries.

ed Eugeen Schreurs (Peer: Alamire, 1995), BFr3,950

Quite suddenly facsimiles of medieval music manuscripts are in demand. For some years there has been a flourishing trade in reproductions of Renaissance and Baroque music prints: in fact many musicians far prefer to perform from original sources of lute music or Baroque chamber music. But it has taken longer for reproductions of earlier sources to be seen as worth while. Perhaps that was partly because they are harder to read: the famous facsimiles of the first Escorial chansonnier and of the Dijon chansonnier seemed useful mainly for classroom purposes, as ways of giving students the opportunity to do transciption …