Recording music from a Poissy processional at Bryn Mawr College
Channel: BMCSpecial Collections
Date: 28/05/2015

Bryn Mawr College holds a a late Gothic French processional (c. 1450-1500) from the aristocratic Dominican convent of Saint-Louis at Poissy. The manuscript contains Latin texts with accompanying rubrics and chant notation. On April 23, 2015,  the processional’s chants for the Candlemas service were sung in the College’s Goodhart Hall by women of the Chamber Singers of Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges and the Bryn Mawr Renaissance Choir, under the direction of Haverford College Professor Thomas Lloyd. John Andrew Bailey, director of the Renaissance Choir, transcribed the processional’s neumes into modern notation and advised on the performance. Kyra Neiman, Class of 2017 made this video to record the event.

More information about the processional, including a complete digitization of the volume is at http://poissyprocessional.brynmawr.edu/.