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The Winchester Trouper: Harmful Tropers
The Winchester Trouper is an Anglo-Saxton service book dating from about 980 (Hugues, Dom 180). This collection of songs was performed in the early church. There are two of these tropers, the second one is just a modified version of the first. A troper is a type of medieval liturgical chant book (Sadie, Stanley 794).
The earliest known practical source of polyphony is one of the two 11th century tropers from Winchester (Caldwell, John 116). Polyphony is the style of music which has multiple parts being played together or sang together at the same time, which create harmony. The Winchester Tropers bear witness to the rapidity with which liturgical embellishments, including polyphony, spread throughout Western Europe (Hoppin, Richard
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