MUSI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hurdy-Gurdy, Cantus Firmus, Guillaume Du Fay
25 May 2016
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Find a work of renaissance art (between 1400-1600) online or in a book that features musical instruments! Post it online on culearn and try to identify the instruments. I think i can identify a bagpipe, hurdy gurdy, etc . Take a tune, repeat the tune over and over. Du fay had 2 cantus firmus: tenor 1: 5th below, tenor ii: original chant. Numerology/numbers/ratios were very important to du fay and early renaissance music. Written for the consecration, by pope eugenius iv, of the cathedral of santa maria del fiore, florence, Works we have studied by du fay: chanson: Reveilles vous/ wake up and be merry: isorhythmic motet: Cf is based on marian chant: ave regina caelorum . *du fay asked this piece to be played for his death. Piece that du fay (1397-1474) wanted sung upon his death. Didn"t happen until the next day november 28, 1474. Miserere tui labentis dufay / have mercy on your dying du fay .
