A Medieval Christmas

A Medieval Christmas

1. ISAIAH'S PROPHECY (0:33) Hebrew cantillation THE SYBIL'S PROPHECY, Iudicii signum      (1:11) Spanish, 10th c.

2. CONDUCTUS, Adest sponsus (1:34) Franco-Provençal, 12th c.

3. GABRIEL'S PROPHECY, Oiet, virgines (4:53) Franco-Provençal, 12th c.

4. CLAUSULA, Domino (2:12) French, 13th c.

5. HYMN, Conditor alme siderum (1:28) plainchant LAUDA, Verbum caro factum est (1:21)      Italian, 15th c.

6. READING, On frymde was Word (6:59) Old Saxon, 10th c. ORGANUM, Iudea et Iherusalem      (8:35) French, 13th c.

7. CONDUCTUS, Gedeonis area (2:47) French, 13th c.

8. READING, 0 moder mayde (1:25) Geoffrey Chaucer, ca. 1340-1400

9. HYMN, Ave maris stella plainchant SACRED SONG, 0 Maria, deu maire (4:23)       Provençal,13th c.

10. PROSA, Ave Maria (2:40) French, 12th c.

11. RESPONSORY, Gaude Maria (1:22) pLinchnnt HYMN, Joseph, liber nefe min (1:12)        German, 14th c.

12. CONDUCTUS WITH REFRAIN, Congaudet hodie Catalan, 12th c./ In dulci' iubilo Dutch,       15th c. HYMN, In dulci iubilo (4:58)German , 16th c.

13. READING, Hand by hand we shule us take (0:36) English, 4th c.

14. CONDUCTUS, Lux hodie...Orientis partibus (2:59) French, 12th c.