THE SECOND FOUNTAINS FRAGMENT: A POSTSCRIPT
Published Apr 1, 1958 · D. Stevens
Music & Letters
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sance Music'. The description of the Fountains Abbey manuscript, together with an uncommonly generous batch of facsimiles and musical examples, appeared in the January 1958 issue of 'Music & Letters', and this brief postscript is offered as an amplification of the pioneer work achieved by my revered former teacher Dr. H. K. Andrews and my friend and colleague Thurston Dart. In the course of confirming their suggestion that the manuscript contains music of the Cistercian rite, I hope to show also that the manuscript had two different and distinct periods of use; that there were two scribes; that the order of the four folios can be restored with a reasonable degree of certainty; and that another English manuscript (on the basis of a concordance with this one) can be identified as Cistercian in origin. The point of departure might well be the description of items III ('Gloria Patri'), V ('Constantes estote') and VII ('Constantes