Sequence Texts in Transmission (ca. 1200 - ca. 1500)

The nature and origin of the texts set in motet cycles reflect their use and reveal many details about their function. The contribute discuss some case studies that concern sequence texts, with particular focus on famous Marian texts such as Gaude virgo mater Christi, Ave mundi spes Maria, and Verbum bonum et suave. The dissemination of these and other similar texts also shows the variety of treatments they receive in different sources (treatises, liturgical and devotional books, polyphonic manuscripts and editions), in different styles (monophony, simple polyphony, cantus fractus, art polyphony, discantus on cantus firmus derived from chant, and so on), in different structures (lauda, sequence, hymn, contrafactum on secular song, motet, etc.), and in different contexts.