Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

3 The best translation of the preface to Notker’s Liber hymnorum is Richard Crocker’s, in The Early Medieval Sequence (Berkeley and
Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1977), pp. 1–2. An adaptation of it can be found in Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin, Music
in the Western World: A History in Documents (2nd ed., Belmont CA: Thomson/Schirmer, 2008), p. 39.