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equality (through a variety of irnitative procedures) '
structural .oh"..n"" (especially through rnotivic
constructlon), and attention to declarnatiott ^ ?ttd
expressive gestures. These texturally clarifying
features nay also be found in the Mass music of the
period.
TEXTS AND TEXTING IN THE
EARLY CHANSONS OF GUILLAUUE DUFAY
Graeme M. Boone , Harvard University
In recent years, studies of fifteenth-century
chansons have increasingly turned. to the poetic texts
as a crucial element in their analysis. Nonetheless,
no system has been found to explain the way composers
set about putting the texts to music, a dilemma
evidenced in the persistence of arnbiguities in text
underlay. On the contrary, some recent trends point
away from overall systems, focusing ratherupo. the
conscious distinctness of the individual piece.
This paper will outline a simpla rheory
explains
that
Dufay's early text-setting p.o"!drr.=.
Established by a strong consensus of sJurc. readings,
the theory permits correction of errors not only in Ihe
collected edition, but ultimately in the Lriginal
sources thenselves, and provides tirereby a firm iasis
for underlay in this repertory. Its impact on musical
analysis is extensive; and when considered in
perspective,
Larger
it appears as part of a remarkably unified
French song technique ranging frorn the thirieenth
the
to
sixteenth centur_ies. Flnally, the text-setting
rules will be considered in relLtionship to middle
French poetics in general, wherein it vrilI be seen that
each serves to clarify the other in new and significant
ways.
ON THE TEXTING OF OBRECHT MASSES
Barton Hudson, West Virginia Univers ity
Munich, Universit6tsbibliothek Ms. 20 Art. Z3g
contains Obrecht's Missa Fors seulement with a notation
indicating Chat it was copied by Heinrich Glareanus and
Peter Tschudi from a manuscript in the composer's own
hand (ab exemplari eiusdem, i. e. Hobrechti, descripta) .
S ince the Munich nanuscript pt gives every everv evidence evi denno of ^1
hawing been carefully prepared, it should give a sood
idea of rhe srare of rhe Mass when th;
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distribution--some voices of some ^ sa.ri^-^
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underlaid, some prowided provided
cornpletely .*uv,receI)
onlv only .i;;-'^',:lt-t with
limited to inciDi incipits. ts Tn In some ^+L^- other "ro" drru some
mas-o-'
shown stemmatically where where simil similar ar .-^.._l-"J-
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nounts
can be
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