54 compositions by William Brown (Wilhelmo Brouno), Christian Erbach(?), Andrea Gabrieli, Claudio Merulo, Vincenzo Pellegrini, Peter Philips, Gerardus Scroncx, Paul Siefert, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Anonymouses - Pages: pp. 340
Among the sources of seventeenth century keyboard music, the Book of the Crosiers of Liège occupies an exceptional position since it contains some unica of composers as important as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Peter Philips.
It is also a remarkable manuscript in that this is one of the earliest appearances in organ music of accurate indications regarding registrations. Since its first edition in 1910, as the last volume of Alexandre Guilmant’s Archives des Maîtres de l’Orgue, musicological research has established new concordances, made some new attributions and proposed a few hypotheses which must still be confirmed.
The German publisher Schott brought out the complete Archives in a series, whose success, due to the choice of repertory and the quality of Guilmant’s work, never faltered. To the extent of the appearance of some pirate editions… For some obscure reason, this last volume was never reprinted in the series, thus depriving organists and musicologists of the LFCL, and at the same time of the works of the Brussels organist Peeter Cornet.
We owe the paternity of the present edition to the Organ Commission of the City of Liège, created in 1975 by the alderman Hubert Magotte. Realities of political life being what they are, it is his successor, the alderman Jean-Pierre Hupkens who at last has seen to its publication. In this way, the principal document concerning the organ in Liège and its music will again be accessible as a whole, with editorial remarks and commentaries, that seek to provide the reader with the most recent findings of musicological research as well as a rigorous and practical musical text.
[Introductory texts in English and French]
Conventions v
Bibliographie / Bibliography vi
Liber Fratrum Cruciferorum Leodiensium viii
Histoire du manuscrit / History of the Manuscript viii
Description du manuscrit / Description of the Manuscript xii
Particularités graphiques / Graphic Characteristics xv
Ordre des pages / Order of the Pages xix
Le répertoire / The Music xxxii
Gerardus Scroncx xxxv
L’orgue / The Organ xxxvi
Technique d’édition / Editorial Method xxxvii
Remerciements / Acknowledgments xliv
Fac-similé I: folio 1r
[1] Authore Andrea Gabrieli. Primi Toni
[2] Secundi
[3] Tertij
[4] Quarti
[5] Quiti
[6] Sexti
[7] Septimi
[8] Octavi
[9] Fantasie. de Petro Philippi
Fac-similé II: LFCL [4]-[5] (folio 3v)
[10] Fantasie
[11] Fantasie
Fac-similé IIa: titre de / title of LFCL [9]
Fac-similé IIb: titre de / title of LFCL [19]
[12] Fantasie
[13] Fantasie [Christian Erbach?: Canzona secundi toni
[14] Fantasie
Fac-similé IV: LFCL [21] (folio 26r
[15] Fantasie
[16] Echo
[17] Fantazie. [Vincenzo Pellegrini: Canzon detta la Cassiodora
[18] Fantazie. [Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Toccata]
[19] Echo D’Jean Piere Swelingk
[20] Fantasie. de Claudio Merulo [Secondo Tuono. Toccata Quarta (Libro 1°]
[21] Fantasie de C. M. [Claudio Merulo: Quarto Tuono. Toccata Ottava (Libro 1°)]
[22] Fantasie.
[23] Fantasie de Claudio Merulo. [Settimo Tuono, Toccata Quinta (Libro 2°)]
Fac-similé V: LFCL [33] (folio 44r
[24] Echo. pour trompette
Fac-similé VI: LFCL [27] (folio 36r)
[25] Echo
Fac-similé VI: LFCL [38] (folio 53v)
[26] Fantasie
[27] [Echo]
[28] [Fantaisie en basse et dessus]
Fac-similé VI: LFCL [42] (folio 61r)
[29] [---]
Fac-similé IX: LFCL [30] (folio 40v),
signature de Gerardus Scroncx / signature of Gerardus Scroncx
[30] Echo. F˜r Gerardus Scroncx
[31] Echo [F˜r Gerardus Scroncx?]
˜
[32] Fantasie de petro philippi
[33] Fantasie. de wilhelmo brouno
[34] Fantasie
Fac-similé X: LFCL [32] (folio 42r)
[35] Fantasie
[36] Fantasie [Paul Siefert: Benedicam dominum]
[37] Echo
Fac-similé XI: LFCL folios 70v-71r
[38] Echo
[39] Fantasie [Canzona francese detta Petit Jacquet]
[40] Fantasie
[41] [Claudio Merulo: Quarto Tuono. Toccata Nona (Libro I°)]
[42] [Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Echo Fantasia]
[43] [Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?: Toccata]
[44] [Jan Pieterszoon Sweelick: Toccata a2]
[45] [Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck?: Toccata G4]
[46] [---]
[47] Fantazia
[48] [Echo]
[49] [Echo]
[50] [---]
[51] Fantasia per sonar Le Cornetto
[52] [Récit (Fantasia per sonar Le Cornetto?)]
[53] [Récit (Fantasia per sonar Le Cornetto?)]
[54] [---]
Fac-similé XI: date 1617 (folio 77r)
Table par auteurs / Content by authors
Brown, William (Wilhelmo Brouno): 33
Erbach, Christian?: 13
Gabrieli, Andrea: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
Merulo, Claudio: 20, 21, 23, 41
Pellegrini, Vincenzo: 17
Philips, Peter: 9, 32
Scroncx, Gerardus: 30, [31]
Siefert, Paul: 36
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon: 18, 19, 42, [43], 44, [45]
