A complete edition of the
chansonnier by the present author is forthcoming, to be published by A-R Editions.
These pieces come from the
Chansonnier of the Dukes of Lorraine (Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, Fonds francais 1597), which contains songs, motets, and especially motetchansons, among which are some of the most successful pieces of the genre from the Josquin generation: Si sumpsero, Agricola's Si dedero, Josquin's Que vous madame/In pace in idipsum.
He also questions the late Howard Mayer Brown's suggestion that a
chansonnier now in the University Library at Uppsala (Vokalmusik i Handskrift 76a) may have been copied in Toulouse, arguing, on the basis of close affinities with Copenhagen 1848 in repertory, paper and script types, that both manuscripts--`products of the same cultural circle [in] provincial southern France'--more probably originated in Lyons.
The intriguing interaction between patronage and verbal-visual play conveyed by the Wolfenbuttel
Chansonnier, a deluxe, personalized Loire Valley compilation likely copied in the 1470s.
Perhaps that was partly because they are harder to read: the famous facsimiles of the first Escorial
chansonnier and of the Dijon
chansonnier seemed useful mainly for classroom purposes, as ways of giving students the opportunity to do transciption exercises-which most of them hated.
The attribution to `Malcort' appears only in the Casanatense
Chansonnier (Rome, Biblioteca Casanatense, MS 2856), a manuscript containing many works by Martini which was probably copied at Ferrara some time between 1479 and the early 1490s (a precise date has not yet been established).(70) Allan Atlas has argued for Malcort, and Howard Mayer Brown has suggested Martini as well as Malcort; only Ockeghem has been ruled out convincingly, by Barton Hudson, mainly because his name appears exclusively in later and less authoritative sources.(71) But if Malcort was the composer, as many now believe, then Abertijne is not the only candidate from the Low Countries.
Einstimmigkeit um 1500: der
Chansonnier Paris, Bnf f.
Einstimmigkeit urn 1500: der
Chansonnier Paris, Bnf f.
Klaus Pietschmann reappraises the elaborate illuminations in the late-fifteenth-century Florence
chansonnier Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Banco Rari 229, especially the iconography and symbolism of the circular canon surrounded by the Four Winds "in Niemandsland" (no-man's-land, p.
Many of the pieces in this volume have appeared in isolated chunks over the years, in anthologies, in
chansonnier editions and in separate prints.