Cantus Selecti - pages 6* - 289*
  • WGS
    Posts: 300
    Why the "*" for each page number?

    On the other hand in the indices, the page numbers are given with just the Arabic numbers.

    issue: Desclee, 1949 - Solesmis
  • CHGiffenCHGiffen
    Posts: 5,193
    Not sure, but the "*" numbers do not exactly accord with pages. For example there is on the second page of music the number 2*-6*. And, following 54*, there are pages 54A*, 54B*, 54C*.
    Thanked by 2WGS Cantus67
  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,782
    Many of the chants in Cantus Selecti were found as an appendix in (for example) the Antiphonale 1949, these appendix would of course had * page numbers (or similar) I suspect that the original typesetting for this book intended it as an appendix rather than a stand alone book.
    Thanked by 4M. Jackson Osborn WGS JonathanKK CHGiffen
  • WGS
    Posts: 300
    CHG, I had never noticed the anomaly of pages 54A*, 54B*, 54C*.

    However, I had been intrigued by the inclusion of the Kyrie, fons bonitatis replete with its trope.
    Thanked by 1CHGiffen
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