The Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus: Volume I: Text and Music; Volume II: Translation

First edition with the melodies of an immensely significant ninth-century liturgical masterpiece.

Winner of the Palisca Prize by the American Musicological Society, 2017

These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry, composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus (the stammerer), monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907497293
• ISBN13: 9781907497292
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: Henry Bradshaw Society
• Length: 575 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 8.5" x 12.0"