Review

The origins ofThe Earliest Motets (to c.1270): A Complete Comparative Editionlie in Hans Tischler's 1942 Yale doctoral dissertation, in which all the motets inD-W677, 1-Fl Plut.29.1andD-W1099were systematically transcribed. Tischler's dissertation has contained the only available transcriptions of the unica in these sources for nearly forty years, though works with concordances have been accessible in publications by Aubry, Rokseth, Anglès and Anderson.The Earliest Motets(henceforthEM) takes his dissertation as its core, and adds the motets ofE-Mn 20486, F-Pn lat. 15139, F-Pn n.a.f. 13521, D-Mbs Mus.Ms. 4775, the chansonniers, and odd motet voices and texts found in various narrative works and poetry anthologies. Such a publication is therefore a major landmark of twentieth-century musicology.