Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

CHAPTER 5: POLYPHONY IN PRACTICE AND THEORY

1   Giraldus    Cambrensis, Descriptio  Cambriae,   trans.  adapted from    that    of  Ernest  H.  Sanders in  F.  W.  Sternfeld,  ed.,    A   History of  Western

Music,  Vol.    I   (New    York:   Praeger,    1973),  p.  264,    by  comparison  with    that    in  Shai    Burstyn,    “Gerald of  Wales   and the Sumer   Canon,”

Journal of  Musicology  II  (1983): 135,    where   the original    Latin   may also    be  found.