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Burgundy and Guillaume Du Fay

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Burgundy and Guillaume Du Fay

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Objectives

• Burgundy (the place, not the color)• Guillaume Du Fay and his patrons• Mass settings

– learn your Mass styles!!!

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Modern Burgundy

Burgundy

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The Duchy of Burgundy (1400s)

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W/T 22: “Music at Burgundian Festivities” (Olivier de la Marche)

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In the grand and spacious hall hung with tapestries there were three tables. On one stood a church with a chiming bell and four singers who sang and played the organ when their turn came. On another was pastry in which 28 living persons played on diverse instruments, each in turn. . . . Then . . . a horse came trotting backwards through the entranceway, and on this horse were seated two trumpet players. They played a fanfare on their instruments, as the horse was led up and down through the banquet hall. After this, the organ players in the church began to play most sweetly, and when these finished, from the pastry there came the sound of a cornet, [and] a lute and a sweet pipe, with yet another instrument in harmony. 

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importance of Burgundy

• source of patronage • breeding ground of master composer‐singers• center of cosmopolitan musical style

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Guillaume Du Fay, Resvellies vous, NAWM 36

Verse 1a. Awake and be merry, all lovers who love gentleness;

a. frolic and flee melancholy.Tire not of serving yourself well.

b. for today will be the nuptials,with great honor and noble lordship, and it behooves you, everyone to celebrateand join the happy company.

C. Noble Charles, who is named Malatesta.

Verse 2a. He has chosen a lady, fair and good, by whom he will be greatly honored,

a. for she comes from a very noble lineage of barons who are much renowned.b. Her name is Victoria,and she descends from the Colonnas.thus it is right that his appeal be heardto live honestly with this lady.

C. Noble Charles, who is named Malatesta.

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Guillaume Du Fay, Resvellies vous, NAWM 36

• Resvellies vous– ballade– wedding announcement

– emphasis on         patron

– melismas– melodic variety– fermata section– musical refrain

Verse 1a. Awake and be merry, all lovers who love gentleness;

a. frolic and flee melancholy.Tire not of serving yourself well.

b. for today will be the nuptials,with great honor and noble lordship,and it behooves you, everyone to celebrateand join the happy company.

C. Noble Charles, who is named Malatesta.

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Music and History

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the “power vacuum”

• Guelphs vs. Ghibellines• merceneries (condottieri)

– E.g., Charles Malatesta

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Polyphonic Masses• Mass Ordinary• Borrowed material• Compositional process (mass type)

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Missa Se la face ay pale (1450s) NAWM 38

• cantus firmus mass• motto mass/ head motive• tenor from ballade: Se la face ay pale (1430s)

– motives in other voices as well– isorhythmic(ish)

• three statements of color (3 different mensurations)

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conclusions

• music composed for patrons– Resvellies vous – public image, legitimizes patron– Missa Se la face ay pale – incorporates popular song

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Binchois

• De plus en plus• rondeau• English traits