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Book SynopsisNew articles on du Fay and Desprez, on sacred and secular music, and reception history, form a fitting tribute to one of the field's foremost scholars. This volume celebrates the work of David Fallows, one of the most influential scholars in the field of medieval and Renaissance music. It draws together articles by scholars from around the world, focusing on key topics to which Fallows has contributed significantly: the life and works of Guillaume Du Fay and of Josquin Desprez, archival studies and biography, sacred and secular music of the late mediaeval and Renaissance period, and reception history. Studies include major archival discoveries concerning the identity of the composer Fremin Caron; a reconsideration of the authorship of works within the Josquin canon, notably Mille regretz and Absalon fili mi; a freshlook at key works from Du Fay's youth and early maturity; accounts of newly discovered sources and works; and an appraisal of David Fallows' contribution to the early music performance movement by Christopher Page, former directorof Gothic Voices. The collection also includes two newly published compositions dedicated to the honorand. Fabrice Fitch teaches at the Royal Northern College of Music; Jacobijn Kiel is an independent scholar. Contributors: Rob C. Wegman, Jane Alden, Bonnie J. Blackburn, Honey Meconi, Gianluca D'Agostino, Andrew Kirkman, Jaap van Benthem, Margaret Bent, James Haar, Alenjandro Enrique Planchart, Jesse Rodin, Lorenz Welker, Kinuho Endo, Joshua Rifkin, Thomas Schmidt-Beste, Richard Sherr, Peter Wright, Fabrice Fitch, Tess Knighton, Warwick Edwards, Adam Knight Gilbert, Markus Jans, Oliver Neighbour, Anthony Rooley, Keith Polk, John Milsom, Jeffrey J. Dean, EricJas, Peter Gülke, Iain Fenlon, Barbara Haggh, Dagmar Hoffmann-Axthelm, Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl, Esperanza Rodríguez-García, Eugeen Schreurs, Reinhard Strohm
Trade ReviewThe book is beautifully produced, with lots of good illustrations and musical examples [...] In a sense it is a monument, not just to one scholar, but to a whole generation in which some of the finest minds dedicated themselves to the music of the fifteenth century. * MUSIC & LETTERS *
[T]he volume is serious in style and content but has moments of lightness and humour [...] the articles provide new, original material and ideas on a large number of topics. [...] a labour of love. * THE CONSORT *
Table of ContentsManuscript Sigla Preface - Fabrice Fitch and Jacobijn Kiel Foreword: David Fallows and the Performance of Medieval Music - Fremin le Caron at Amiens: New Documents - Rob C. Wegman Ung Petit cadet: Verbal and Visual Play in the Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier - Jane Alden A New Tenor on So ys emprentid - Bonnie Blackburn Shedding New Light [Literally] on the Rochester Fascicle: A Preliminary Report - Honey Meconi Two musical letters from Aragonese Naples - Gianluca D'Agostino Johannes Sohier dit Fede and St. Omer: a Story of Pragmatic Sanctions - Andrew Kirkman Intermedio I: Yes, We Were Young... - Jaap van Benthem Petrarch, Padua, the Malatestas, Du Fay and Vergene bella - Margaret Bent A Suggestion about Fauxbourdon - James Haar Du Fay's Plainsong Paraphrase Settings - Alejandro Planchart With a Flourish: Melismatic Writing in Du Fay's Early Songs - Jesse Rodin Portugaler: Guillaume Du Fay's contribution to instrumental music? - Lorenz Welker A Reconsideration of the Mass Cycle by Arnold de Lantins and Ciconia in Bologna Q15 - Kinuho Endo Martini and Obrecht: Some Speculations - Joshua Rifkin The Art of Cellular Counterpoint: The Motets of Petrus Wilhelmi - Thomas Schmidt-Beste What Were They Thinking? Sola caret monstris at the Papal Court - Richard Sherr A Gloria Newly Attributed to Byttering - Peter Wright Intermedio II: Agricola VIII - Fabrice Fitch A new song in a strange land? Garcimuños's Una montaña pasando - Tess Knighton Isaac's pre-Italian songs: An over-optimistic hand-list - Warwick Edwards Words and Music in the Sea of Long Waiting - Adam Knight Gilbert 'Dieu vous doinst hui en bonne estraine tout le desir de vostre coeur': Observations on Binchois' Margarite, fleur de valeur - Markus Jans Three times seven Songs by Byrd - Oliver Neighbour 'I must complain': A Comparative Study in Variant Settings - Anthony Rooley Heinrich Isaac and shifting musical perspectives, c.1485-1490 - Keith Polk 'Plaine de dueil et de melancolie': Tracing a Negative of Josquin des Prez - Jaap van Benthem Surface, Structure and 'Style' in Absalon fili mi - John Milsom Who Really Knows Who Composed Mille regretz? - Fabrice Fitch Josquin, Two Contrafacta, and the Lost Stanzas of 'Comment peult avoir joye' - Jeffrey Dean In pace in idipsum: a little-known motet attributed to Josquin - Eric Jas Intermedio III: Verspätete Monologe - Brahms' Klavierstücke op. 116, 117, 118 und 119 - Peter Gülke Confessional Companions: Herpol, Glareanus, and Friends - Matthew Laube, Reviews Editor Credit for Music in Court and City in the Low Countries, 1467-1500 - Barbara Haggh David musicus, or: On the consoling power of string music - Dagmar Hoffmann-Axthelm The Laudes Musicae in Renaissance Music Treatises - Leofranc Holford-Strevens The Role of Music in 16th Century German City Life: A close look at the iconography of Hans Sachs' and Jost Amman's Ständebuch - Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl The Perfect Spanish Chapelmaster: the Depiction of the Composer Ginés Pérez [d. 1600] in Felipe Pedrell's Hispaniae Schola Musica Sacra - Esperanza Rodríguez-Garcia The 'topstukkendecreet' in Flanders and its musical context: the case of Glareanus' Dodekachordon - Eugeen Schreurs The difference of early European music - Reinhard Strohm List of Contributors Principal publications of David Fallows
