ABSTRACT

This paper was read at the Third International Conference on Tropes, ‘Les Tropes et leurs manuscrits’, in Paris, October 1985, sponsored by Corpus Troporum (Stockholm), the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and the European Science Foundation. It was reprinted in the Journal o f the Plainsong & Mediaeval Music Society (1985) by kind permission of Corpus Troporum and Gunilla Iversen and reprinted here by the courtesy of the Society and David Hiley, then the editor of the Journal The revised version includes references to other essays in this collection and to Beneventanum Troporum Corpus II, Ordinary Chants and Tropes fo r the Mass from Southern Italy, A.D. 1000-1250, Pt 1: Kyrie eleyson, ed. John Boe (1989). In the revised Tables 2-7 below, condensed descriptions of MSS and repertory have sometimes been added from BTC II. Tables 10-19 had to be recast from the larger format of the Journal Original pagination could not be retained but table numbers have been kept.