Alexander Turner
The Pepys Project is designed to equip performers with more experience and confidence with programming and realising medieval music. This is done through transcriptions and recordings of works from the 'Pepys' manuscript (GB Cmc 1236), which was likely compiled in or around Canterbury Cathedral in the 1460s. It contains music for the everyday mostly by anonymous composers. Scores can be downloaded below, and there are recordings of some works.
The Pepys Project
The editions in this project are designed to aid musicians with performance, offering possibilities and suggestions in a range of repertoire.
A short guide to English-Latin pronunciation of the period can be found here.
Ave Maria
In pace
A two-voice setting of the compline respond.
Original pitch / Transposed pitch (for higher or lower voices)
Iste confessor
An alternative hymn for 3 voices for feasts of confessors.
Original pitch / Original pitch, mixed clefs
Low pitch / High pitch / Very high pitch
Lumen ad revelationem
A 3-voice responsory for the during the lighting of candles at Candlemas. It contains a Nunc Dimittis which may be performed separately.
Original pitch / Low pitch / High pitch
Miserere mihi, Domine
A setting of the psalm antiphon for Compline on Sundays at various points of the year.
O quam glorifica - John Fowler
A three-part alternatim setting of the hymn for the feast of the Assumption.
Salvator mundi
A setting of a seasonal Compline hymn for 3-4 voices (see accompanying note in the score).
Salve, festa dies
Music for an Easter (or other feast) processional for 4 voices.
Recording excerpt:
Te lucis ante terminum
A three-part alternatim setting of the seasonal hymn for Compline.
Original pitch / Low pitch