While the medieval countries of Western and Southern Europe were built on the ruins of the Roman Empire, the Christian civilisation came to Poland only around AD 966, with the baptism of Poland, which is regarded as beginning of the state of Poland. Therefore, court music had no time to form there as richly as in other places of Europe.

The number of remaining Polish medieval songs is small, there are mostly sacred compositions. They had the better chances of getting written down, and even better ones of survival - behind some thick monastery walls in quite uneasy times.

Mikołaj z Radomia (15th century) - biography and more info

• Missa I ^[18]
  • Gloria BK
  • Credo BK
• Missa II ^[18]
  • Gloria BK
  • Credo BK
• Missa III ^[18]
  • Gloria BK
  • Credo BK
• Historigraphi aciem mentis ^[18] BK
• Magnificat ^[18] BK
• Ballada ^[18] BK
• Alleluia

Anonymous

• Bogurodzica ^[#] Mother of God: This single-voiced hymn is the oldest known song written in Polish, and originated probably in the 13th century. It used to be a war song of Polish knights.
• Breve regnum Short Reign; original name: Cantilena de regno scholarium Cracoviensum: An interesting secular song, used by students of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. It describes, as far as I know, the annual seven-days feast (Students' Games).
• O nadroższy kwiatku The Flower Most Precious
• Omnia beneficia This is the oldest multi-voiced piece found in Poland, from circa 1300.
• Angelus ad Virginem missus (late 15th century)
• Bądź wiesioła, Panno Czysta (late 15th century)
• Chwała tobie, gospodzinie (ca. 1452)
• Zdrow bądź, krolu anjelski (ca. 1424) Another arrangement

Ładysław z Gielniowa (15th century)

• Żołtarz Jezusow Passion of Jesus
  This four-part arrangement was written in the 16th century.

Jerzy Liban (1464 - past 1546)

• Ortus de Polonia arr. W. Sołtysik

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