The Library of the Carolingian Quire

This online catalog lists all of the music held by the Quire as of May 2001. It is maintained by the Librarian. The library can be searched by looking at the following lists:

• Master List: This is the complete list of songs in the Quire library, sorted alphabetically by title. It contains all the information we know about each song as well as the full lyrics. Consequently, this is a very large page, and may take a while to load.
• Language: All of the songs in the library, sorted alphabetically by the language of the lyrics. This list is useful if you're planning an event set in a specific country or region.
• Time Period: A list of all the songs whose dates of composition we know with reasonable accuracy, sorted chronologically.
• Theme: All the songs in the library, sorted by theme or general subject. This can be an especially useful resource if you want to choose songs to fit a particular theme, e.g. songs celebrating spring for a May Day event.
• Composers: A list of all the songs in the library with known composers, sorted alphabetically by composer name.
• Parts: All of the songs in the library, sorted according to how they are arranged for vocalists. This list is an excellent resource for a director who needs songs that fit a particular group of singers.

Ask the Librarian to bring copies of specific music to rehearsal.

Clicking on a song title in any list other than the Master List will take you to the song's full information in the Master List.

Clicking on any part of an entry in the Master List other than the lyrics will take you to the relevant place in the secondary lists. For example: if while looking at the Master List, you were to click on "Moderne" -- the composer of "A la Venue de Noel" -- you would be taken to the list of songs sorted by composers, at the place where Moderne's entry begins.

In addition to sheet music, the Librarian has books which are owned by the Guild and held by the Quire. They are:

• Readings in the History of Music in Performance, by Carol Cook MacClintock. Published by Indiana University Press, 1979. ISBN 0-253-14495-7.
• Early Music (Vol XXII/3, August 1994). Published by Oxford University Press. ISSN 0306-1078.
• Early Music America (Vol 8/3, Fall 2002). Published by Early Music America. ISSN 1083-3633.
• Fors Seulement, edited by Martin Picker. Published by A-R Editions, Inc., as Volume XIV in the series Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, 1981. ISSN 0362-3572. ISBN 0-89579-135-6.
• Deuteromelia, by Thomas Ravenscroft. Originally published 1609. Published in facsimile by De Capo Press and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, as Number 410 in the series The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile, 1971. ISBN 90-221-0410-9.
• Melismata. Musicall Phansies, by Thomas Ravenscroft. Originally published 1609. Published in facsimile by De Capo Press and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, as Number 411 in the series The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile, 1971. ISBN 90-221-0411-7.
• Pammelia. Musicks Miscellanie, by Thomas Ravenscroft. Originally published 1609. Published in facsimile by De Capo Press and Theatrum Orbis Terrarum Ltd, as Number 412 in the series The English Experience: Its Record in Early Printed Books Published in Facsimile, 1971. ISBN 90-221-0412-5.
• LeRoy & Ballard's 1572 Mellange de Chansons, edited by Charles Jacobs. Published by the Pennsylvania State University Press, 1982. ISBN 0-271-00295-6.
• Firenze MS. Magliabecchiana XIX 176, 1959.
• Chansonnier ca 1500.
• Ave vera caro Christi, London Pro Musica Edition EML 294, for 4 voices or instruments, 1996.
• 4 Scottish Songs c. 1545, London Pro Musica Edition EML 180, for 4 voices or instruments, 1990.
• King's Singers the Colour of Song Vol 1: English Renaissance. ISBN 0-634-01563-X.
• The King's Singers' Madrigals Vol 1: Madrigals in 4 Parts, 1984. ISBN 0-571-10051-1.
• The King's Singers' Madrigals Vol 2: Madrigals in 5 Parts, 1984. ISBN 0-571-10052-X.
• An English Medieval and Rennaissance Song Book: Part Songs and Sacred Music for One to Six Voices, edited by Noah Greenberg, published by Dover Publications, 2000. ISBN 0-486-41374-8.

Last modified by Eowyn, 29 October, AS XXXXV (2010 C.E.)