Description
Book SynopsisAudrey Ekdahl Davidson was a professor of music for many years at Western Michigan University. In honor of her retirement and her history with the Society for Old Music, an organization that she founded in 1966, this collection of music has been selected and prepared. The transcriptions were all designed for performances by the Society for Old Music, and were used in concerts for the local community, the International Congress on Medieval Studies, and other audiences in Michigan. The Society's concerts ranged from medieval chant and monophonic song to polyphonic choral works, and each concert focused on a particular topic, perhaps most successfully when music-drama was joined to liturgical display. The collection is a fitting tribute to tireless scholar, and an asset to any student of early music performance.
Table of ContentsPreface
Publications of Audrey Ekdahl Davidson
Pangue lingua
Salve feste dies
Alma redemptoris mater
Symphonia Virginum (Hildegard of Bingen)
Symphonia Viduarum (Hildegard of Bingen)
Maria muoter reinû maît
Nu tret herzuo der höffen welle
Wainent tögen mit den ougen
Ad mortem festinamus
Stella splendens in monte
Rosa rorans (Nils Hermansson)
Gloria (Swedish)
Aetus carmen melodiae
Das Kyrie
Ad arma (Isabella Leonarda)
Laetatus sum (Isabella Leonarda)
Notes on the Music and Translations
