ABSTRACT
This chapter took as its starting point one manuscript. Its aim was to provide a history of that manuscript and to use such a history to understand its contents. Throughout much of Louis XIII’s reign the echoes of the sixteenth-century Wars of Religion still reverberated around France. The church establishment and the diocese of Paris took a more moderate position, generally favouring a balance between Papal and royal powers. Certainly the influence of such collaborations can be seen in the scoring and compositional practices of Forme’s Mass Aeternae Henrici magni, in which one choir can now be seen to be clearly scored for the chambre, the other for the chapelle, and they may well also have been a significant influence on the later grand motet.
