Transcriber’s Notes

Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.

The table of contents has been added for the reader's convenience.

Notes on music for the cantos included at the end of the play:

• The original image consists of 5 separate antiphons in medieval neumes notation. These have each been transcribed into modern notation image and audio files.
• As is often the case with medieval neumes, tempo, pitches, note durations, and time signatures can only be guessed. The music transcribers consulted the manuscript Sarum Antiphoner of 1519, a modern transcription at the Gregorian Institute of Canada, and recordings by the Schola Hungarica (Laudes - Memory of Thomas Becket, available on YouTube), to assist in creating the modern transcription.
• Each antiphon in the original image is followed by a text excerpt from a psalm, indicated by “ps.” These psalm excerpts have not been included in the modern notation version.
• Proper names in the original are given initial capitals in the modern notation image, and hyphens between syllables have been added where appropriate.
• The MusicXML notation files (.mxl) are for the use of those who wish to download the notation into a music notation program. They were created from the audio versions of the antiphons.
• Click on the [Listen] links to hear the music and on the [View] or [Download] links to see and download a modern transcription of the notation. As of the date of posting, these links to external files will work only in the HTML version of this e-book.