Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

EX. 8-7C Doctorum   principem   super   ethera/Melodia  suavissima  cantemus,   mm. 89–100

The texts are laid out in three strophes, each of which is given the same highly ceremonious treatment:
first a textless introitus in fanfare style, suggesting outdoor performance by wind instruments, perhaps in
the Paduan cathedral square, followed by an almost homorhythmic tenor/contratenor complex in longer
note-values (semibreves, breves, longs) that presents the same color and talea three times in notationally
identical form.