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Zusatztext 'There are so many significant (and readable) articles here that it is difficult to know which should be singled out.' Early Music Review Informationen zum Autor David Fallows is Professor of Musicology at the University of Manchester! UK Zusammenfassung A selection of essays that draws the focus towards individual composers of the 'long' fifteenth century and what we can learn about their songs. It includes essays on the secular works of composers from Ciconia and Oswald von Wolkenstein via Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys and Regis to Josquin, and Henry VIII and Petrus Alamire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface; Ciconia's last songs and their milieu; Ciconia's influence; Two equal voices: a French song repertory with music for two more works of Oswald von Wolkenstein; Binchois and the poets; Ballades by Dufay! Grenon and Binchois: the Boorman fragment; Leonardo Giustinian and quattrocento polyphonic song; Johannes Ockeghem: the changing image! the songs and a new source; Ockeghem as a song composer: hints towards a chronology; The life of Johannes Regis! ca. 1425 to 1496; Busnoys and the early 15th century: a note on L'ardant desir and Faictes de moy; 'Trained and immersed in all musical delights': towards a new picture of Busnoys; Jean Molinet and the lost Burgundian court chansonniers of the 1470s; Walter Frye's Ave regina celorum and the Latin song style; Who composed Mille regretz?; What happened to El grillo; Influences on Josquin; Josquin and popular songs; Josquin and Il n'est plaisir; Petrucci's Canti volumes: scope and repertory; Alamire as a composer; Henry VIII as a composer; Additions and corrections; Indexes.
Summary
A selection of essays that draws the focus towards individual composers of the 'long' fifteenth century and what we can learn about their songs. It includes essays on the secular works of composers from Ciconia and Oswald von Wolkenstein via Binchois, Ockeghem, Busnoys and Regis to Josquin, and Henry VIII and Petrus Alamire.
