MUSI 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Christine De Pizan, Guillaume Du Fay, Contenance Angloise
25 May 2016
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Tinctoris music theorist of the 15th century mentions contenance angloise in one of his treatises (talks about dunstable, style of english, criticized music over 40 years ago) Martin le franc women and music, relating english sound to dunstable. Italian wedding for du fay"s patron (charles malatesta and victoria colonne) 1400-1460) dueil angoisseus (fixed form: ballade: depressing song. Married at 15, widowed at 24 (ettienne du castel: the book of the city of ladies, the treasure of the city of ladies, poem to joan of arc, querelle du roman de la rose . Refrain" = repetition of same words and same music; ab a/b = same music only. Big cadences! (look at relationship between top voice and tenor voice: cantus: top voice, tenor: middle voice. Usually a sharp involved in the 6, musica ficta. Continental fauxbourdon improvisational, chant in top line. Keyboard instruments no piano yet, there is organ.
