The Fleury playbook is a collection of ten liturgical dramas compiled at the monastery of St Bénoit-sur-Loire in about 1200. The
collection has long been famous for the variety of the plays, the quality of the plainchant-style music, and the information given in the
sometimes very detailed rubrics. This second volume of our complete edition contains three plays: The Play of Herod, The Massacre
of the Innocents, and The Visit to the Sepulchre. The monophonic music is printed on a five-line stave (but without other intrusive editorial ‘modernisation’), the complete texts and rubrics are given in Latin and English, and there are helpful suggestions for performance. xiv + 34 pages. |
