Music 220, Seminar. Reform and Music 1450-1550. Busnois

University of California, Berkeley, Department of Music

Spring 2002, Music 220, Seminar, Monday, 2-5 pm, 242 Morrison Hall

Constructing a new ritual context

Reform and music: 1450-1600

Mary Kay Duggan, Prof.

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L'Homme armé Masses

Warmington, "The Ceremony of the Armed Man." In Antoine Busnoys: Method, Meaning, and Context in Late Medieval Music., ed. Paula Higgins. Oxford University Press, 1999. Music, Reserve, ML410.B9798 A58 1999

Craig Wright. The Maze and the Warrior: Symbols in Architecture, Theology, and Music. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. Music, Reserve, BL325.L3 W75 2001
"Antoine Busnoys and the L'homme armé tradition." TARUSKIN, Richard Journal of the American Musicological Society. Vol. XXXIX/2 (summer 1986) 255-93. Abstract: Evidence and reason point to Busnois's composition as the earliest Missa L'homme armé. A correct interpretation of its mensural proportions reveals Busnois's use of an elaborate array of Pythagorean durational 'harmonies' analogous to those of the consonances. In this array, the number 31 is given central importance; this feature may allude to the 31 members of the Order of the Golden Fleece. Such an array cannot be found in any other L'homme armé Mass, except for the six Naples anonymous Masses, which show astonishing parallels to Busnois's. Busnois's authorship of these six Masses is therefore highly likely. Even Il sera pour vous, the earliest setting of the tune, seems to be by Busnois.
"The archives of the Order of the Golden Fleece and music." Haggh, Barbara Royal Musical Association. Journal [United Kingdom]; Vol. 120; Issue 1; 1995; pp. 1-43; Music, bibliog., charts, diagr., transcr. ISSN: 0269-0403. Publication Type: article in a periodical or yearbook; ap Major Topic: Historical musicology - To ca. 1600 (Renaissance) Abstract: The archives of the Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece do not contain music or name known composers or performers, but do preserve significant references to musical activities. The material includes (1) «acta capituli» that refer to discant and instrumental music and confirm the presence of the Burgundian chapel; (2) texts of the Order's Marian Office, approved in 1458 (modeled on the liturgy for St. Dominic); (3) a sermon from 1546; (4) excerpts from pontificals; and (5) documents relevant to the history of the «L'homme armé» tune. Polyphony by Dufay and others, including the Propers of MS «I-TRbc» 1375 (olim 88), seems to have been composed for the Order's chapel, the Sainte-Chapelle in Dijon; moreover, two monophonic sequences are shown to have been composed for the Order.
Haass, Walter, 1936- Studien zu den "L'homme arme"-Messen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts / vorgelegt von Walter Haass. Regensburg : G. Bosse, 1984. Series title: Kolner Beitrage zur Musikforschung ; Bd. 136. UCB Music ML3088 .H2

L'Homme armé : twenty-one settings in two, three and four parts (modern score) ; four partbooks (plus five additional parts) in original notation ; notation guide (insert) / edited by Richard Taruskin. Miami, Fl. : Ogni Sorte Editions, c1980. Chansons and movements from masses. French words, with English translations printed as text. Includes critical commentary. "A brief guide to fifteenth- and sixteenth-century notation for users of the parts." [4] p. UCB Music M2014 .H66P 1980 *c2 copies
Dufay, Guillaume, d. 1474. [Vocal music. Selections.] Missa "L'homme arme" ; Nuper rosarum flores ; Ecclesiae militantis ; Alma Redemptoris Mater ; O sancte Sebastiane ; Salve flos Tuscae gentis / Guillaume Dufay ; [performing editions, David Fallows]. [London] : EMI : His Master's Voice, p1987. 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo. ; 12 in. Series title: Reflexe. UCB Music MUSI L13529
Faugues, Guillaume, 15th cent. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme. Romae : Societas Universalis S. Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 4. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:4
Bassiron, Philippe, 15th cent. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Philippus Basiron. Romae : Societas Universalis S. Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 8. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:8
Busnois, Antoine, d. 1492. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Antonius Busnois. Romae : Societas Universalis S. Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 2. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:2
Caron, Philippe, 15th cent. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Firminus Caron. Romae : Societas Universalis S. Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 3. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:3
La Rue, Pierre de, d. 1518. [Missa L'homme arme. Latin.] Missa l'homme arme / Pierre de la Rue. 2 motets / Nicolas Gombert. Klampenborg, Denmark : Kontrapunkt, p1988. 1 sound disc (52 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. UCB Music MUSI CD3425
Obrecht, Jacob, d. 1505. [Missa L'homme arme. Latin.] Missa L'homme arme : for mixed choir (S.A.T.B.) a cappella / Jacob Obrecht ; edited by Gabor Darvas. London ; New York : Boosey & Hawkes, 1972. Series title: Missae super l'homme arme. UCB Music M2011.O2 M55 1972
Ockeghem, Johannes, ca. 1410-1497. [Missa L'homme arme.] Missa L'homme arme : for mixed choir (S, Ms, A, T, Bar, B) a cappella / Johannes Ockeghem ; edited by Gabor Darvas. Budapest : Editio Musica ; c1972. Series title: Missae super l'homme arme. UCB Music M2011.O25 M55 1972
Ockeghem, Johannes, ca. 1410-1497. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Johannes Ockeghem. Romae : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 6. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:6
Orto, Marbriano de, d. 1529. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme. Romae : Societas Universalis S. Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 7. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:7
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594. [Masses, book 3. Missa L'Homme arme.] La Messa L'homme arme / di Palestrina ; studio paleografico ed edizione critica [a cura di] Anna Maria Monterosso Vacchelli. Cremona : Fondazione Claudio Monteverdi, 1979. Series title: Instituta et monumenta. Serie II, Instituta ; n. 7. UCB Music M2011.P28 H6 1979 *c2 copies
Regis, Johannes, ca. 1430-ca. 1485. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Johannes Regis. Romae : Societas Universalis S Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 5. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:5
Tinctoris, Johannes, d. 1511. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Johannes Tinctoris. Romae : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 9. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:9
Carver, Robert, b. ca. 1490. [Missa L'homme arme. Latin.] Missa L'homme arme : for mixed choir (SATB), a cappella / Robert Carver ; edited by Gabor Darvas. Budapest : Editio Musica, [c1975]. UCB Music M2011.C28 H5
Vaqueras, Bertrandus, ca. 1450-ca. 1507. [Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa super L'homme arme / Vaqueras. Romae : Societas Universalis S. Ceciliae, 1948. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 1, fasc. 10. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.1:10
Cohen, Judith, 1913- The six anonymous L'homme arme masses in Naples, Biblioteca nazionale, MS VI E 40. [Dallas] American Institute of Musicology, 1968. Series title: Musicological studies and documents ; 21. UCB Music ML3088 .C612
DISSERTATION Cohen, Judith, 1935- The six anonymous L'Homme arme masses in MS VI E 40 of the Biblioteca Nazionale, Naples. [n.p.] American Institute of Musicology, 1968. UCB Music ML3088 .C6
Abstract: The 6 Masses form one integral cycle, in which each of the first 5 Masses is based on a succesive portion of the L'Homme armé chanson, while the 6th uses the complete cantus firmus. The cycle seemingly originated at the Burgundian court between 1465-70, and was dedicated to Beatrice of Aragon only later, after the death of Charles the Bold (1477). Busnois may have outlined the cycle's scheme and assigned its completion to his disciples. The MS is described. Analysis examines problems of style and setting, harmony and tonality, and the function of the cantus firmus.
Six anonymous L'homme arme masses in Naples, Biblioteca nazionale, MS VI E 40 / edited by Judith Cohen. Neuhausen-Stuttgart : American Institute of Musicology : Hanssler Verlag , 1981. Series title: Corpus mensurabilis musicae ; 85. UCB Music M2.N3 H6 1981
Missa L'homme arme / Anonymus. Tridenti : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1964. Series title: Documenta majora polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae ; n. 1. UCB Music M2 .D537 v.1
[Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa III super L'Homme arme. Tridenti : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1965. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 3, fasc. 3. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.3:3
[Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa IV super L'Homme arme. Tridenti : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1965. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 3, fasc. 4. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.3:4
[Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa prima super L'Homme arme : secundum unicum fontem mutilem scilicet codicem neapolitanum ms. VI. E. 40 / auctore ignoto. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Romae : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1957. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 3, fasc. 1. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.3:1
[Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa secunda super L'Homme arme : secundum unicum fontem mutilem scilicet codicem neapolitanum ms. VI. E. 40 / auctore ignoto. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Romae : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1957. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 3, fasc. 2. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.3:2
[Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa V super L'Homme arme / anonymus. Tridenti : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1966. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 3, fasc. 5. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.3:5
[Missa super L'homme arme.] Missa VI super L'Homme arme / anonymus. Tridenti : Societas Universalis Sanctae Ceciliae, 1974. Series title: Monumenta polyphoniae liturgicae Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae. Series I ; t. 3, fasc. 6. UCB Music M2 .M579 ser.1 v.3:6

L'Homme arme 1450-1650 : musique de guerre et de paix = Music of war and peace = Musik fur Krieg und Frieden. France : Erato, p1986. 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. L'Homme arme [monophonic song] / anon. XVe s. (0:49) -- L'Homme arme [Il sera pour vous conbatu/L'Homme arme a 4]: La Bataille/ Tilman Susato. UCB Music MUSI CD2100
Dufay, Guillaume, d. 1474. [Missa L'homme arme.] Missa "l'homme arme" / Guillaume Dufay. [New York] : Lyrichord, 1965. 1 sound disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, mono. ; 12 in. UCB Music MUSI L3013
Josquin, des Prez, d. 1521. [Ave Maria (Virgo serena)] Missa L'homme arme / Josquin. [S.l.] : Naxos ; Unterhaching/Munich: Distributed by MVD Music and Video Distribution, p1998. 1 sound disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. Series title: Early music (Sound recording) UCB Music MUSI CD13436
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da, 1525?-1594. [Vocal music. Selections.] Masses and motets. Vol. 2 / Palestrina. [S.l.] : Naxos ; Munich, Germany : Distributed by MVD Music and Video Distribution, p1996. 1 sound disc (56:54) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. Series title: Early music (Sound recording) UCB Music MUSI CD12347
Pipelare, Matthaeus, ca. 1450-ca. 1515. [Vocal music. Selections.] Missa "L'homme arme," chansons, motets / Matthaeus Pipelare. [New York?] : Sony Classical, p1996. 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. Compact disc. Series title: Vivarte. UCB Music MUSI CD11132
Clerks' Group. Performer Missa L'homme arme ; Missa sine nomine a3 / Ockeghem. London : ASV, p2000. 1 sound disc : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. UCB Music MUSI CD15040
Forestier, Mathurin, fl. ca. 1500. Missa Baises moy ; Missa L'homme arme / Mathurin Forestier. [Baton Rouge, La.] : Centaur, p1999. 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. UCB Music MUSI CD15436
Tinctoris, Johannes, d. 1511. Missa L'homme arme ; Missa sine nomine / Johannes Tinctoris. Liege, Belgique : Musique en Wallonie : Cypres, [1997?]. 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. UCB Music MUSI CD13372
Carver, Robert, b. ca. 1490. [Mass, voices (6)] Robert Carver, vol. 2 : 6-part mass ; 4-part mass "L'homme arme". London : Gaudeamus, p1991. 1 sound disc (67 min.) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in. Series title: Scottish Renaissance polyphony ; v. 2. UCB Music MUSI CD6811

Ritual und Krise: Die neapolitanischen L'homme armé-Zyklen und die Semantik der Cantus firmus-Messe. [ Ritual and crisis: The Neapolitan L'homme armé cycles and semantics in cantus firmus masses.] Author: Lütteken, Laurenz Collection: Musik als Text: Bericht über den Internationalen Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1993 Source: [Germany]; Kassel, Germany: Bärenreiter; Vol. 1; pp. 207-218; 1998; Charts, diagr. Publication Type: article in a symposium proceedings or congress report; as Major Topic: Music in liturgy and ritual - Catholic Abstract: [unedited] Musicology has yet to find a conclusive interpretation of the phenomenon of cantus firmus masses. The six Masses on «L'Homme armé» in the MS RISM I-Nn VI. E. 40 are used to test a renewed fragmentary approach to interpretation. The main point concerns the development of contextual, historic, ritual and political dimensions of the cycle obviously directly linked to the Order of the Golden Fleece or rather of Charles the Rash. The history of Orders, the idea of crusades, the legend of Aeneas, and princely duels build a network of meanings, in which the Mass, through an extraneous cantus firmus, is given an extra-liturgical signification that compensates for its loss of ritual meaning. (author)
Un homme armé à Bruxelles: Étude de la messe de Mathurin Forestier contenue dans l'Occo Codex. [An armed man in Brussels: A study of Mathurin Forestier's Mass contained in the Occo Codex.] Barbier, Jacques "Six siècles de vie musicale à Bruxelles/Zes eeuwen muziekleven te Brussel/Six centuries of musical life in Brussels Revue Belge de Musicologie [Belgium]; Vol. 55; 2001; pp. 53-68; Facs., music, charts, diagr. ISSN: 0771-6788.
El MM.40 de la Biblioteca Municipal de Oporto fuente única de la Misa "L'homme armé" de F. Guerrero, Misa pequeña de C. Morales y de otras novedades. [MS MM.40 in the Biblioteca Municipal, Porto: The only source for the Misa "L'homme armé" by F. Guerrero, the Misa pequeña by C. Morales, and other newly discovered works.] Author: Llorens Cisteró, José María Collection: En el septuagésimo aniversario de Josep Maria Llorens Source: Anuario Musical [Spain]; 1994; Vol. 49; 1994; pp. 75-102; Music, charts, diagr. ISSN: 0211-3538. Publication Type: article in a volume of essays printed as a Festschrift; ae Major Topic: Historical musicology - To ca. 1600 (Renaissance) Abstract: Presents an inventory of «P-Pm» MS MM 40, an important source that has been very little discussed in the scholarly literature. Morales is by far the most well represented composer; it is also noteworthy that there is no music by Netherlandish composers in MS MM 40. The polyphonic settings of the antiphons for the Proper of the Mass found in MS MM 40 are all attributed to Portuguese composers (during the 15th and 16th c. polyphony was not employed in Mass Propers for use in Spain, the papal domains, and elsewhere in Italy). Guerrero's Mass based on «L'homme armé», preserved solely in MS MM 40, is closely analyzed with reference to the broad context of the «L'homme armé» Mass tradition and with special attention the melodic formulas employed by Spaniards in their settings. The two settings by Morales of the Requiem Mass found in MS MM 40 are also discussed in detail as is a four-part Mass setting titled «Misa pequeña» and attributed to Morales in this source (in other sources the same work is called «Misa caça»).
Un capitolo di arte allusiva nella prima tradizione de Messe L'homme armé. [A period of allusive art in the first tradition of the L'homme armé Masses.] Author: Caraci Vela, Maria Source: Studi Musicali [Italy]; Vol. 22; Issue 1; 1993; pp. 3-21; Music ISSN: 0391-7789. Publication Type: article in a periodical or yearbook; ap Major Topic: Historical musicology - To ca. 1600 (Renaissance) Abstract: Relationships of intertextuality, imitation, and citation are examined in the first Masses of Dufay, Ockeghem, and Busnois. The Masses are not only compared with each other, but also with other polyphonic works (other Masses, motets, chansons) from before and after 1500.
Palestrina "historicus": Le due messe L'homme armé. [Palestrina historicus: The two L'homme armé masses.] Haar, James "La recezione di Palestrina in Europa: Fino dell'Ottocento." [Italy]; Lucca, Italy: Libreria Musicale Italiana; pp. 3-22; 1999
Title : Ritual und Krise: Die neapolitanischen L'homme armé -Zyklen und die Semantik der Cantus firmus-Messe. [Ritual and crisis: The Neapolitan L'homme armé cycles and semantics in cantus firmus masses.] Author : Lütteken, Laurenz In : Danuser, Hermann [Editor]; Plebuch, Tobias [Editor]; Musik als Text: Bericht über den Internationalen Kongress der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1993. [Music as text: Conference report of the International Musicological Society, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1993.]. [Germany] Kassel, Germany: Bärenreiter; Vol. 1; pp. 207-218; 1998; Charts, diagr.
Josquin in Rome: Some evidence from the Masses. Author: Haar, James Collection: Papal music and musicians in late Medieval and Renaissance Rome Source: [United States]; Oxford: Clarendon; pp. 213-223; 1998; Bibliog. Publication Type: article in a symposium proceedings or congress report. Abstract: The five Masses found in Petrucci's «Missa Josquin» of 1502----are all to be found in Roman MSS dating from ca. 1490-1520.
Palestrina as historicist: The two L'homme armé Masses. Author: Haar, James Source: Royal Musical Association. Journal [United Kingdom]; Vol. 121; Issue 2; 1996; pp. 191-205; Music, charts, diagr. ISSN: 0269-0403. Publication Type: article in a periodical or yearbook; ap Major Topic: Historical musicology - To ca. 1600 (Renaissance) Abstract: In the approximately 50-year span (ca. 1450-1500) during which most of the great Masses on the «L'homme armé» theme were written, composers observed and imitated each other's structural schemes and use of the cantus firmus. When Palestrina came to write his Masses, it was perhaps one of the most striking acts involving both historical consciousness and emulation by any Renaissance composer.
"Music and iconology." Author : Rosand, Ellen In : Lavin, Irving [Editor]; Meaning in the visual arts: Views from the outside. [United States] Princeton: Princeton U.; pp. 257-264; 1995; Illus. RILM Record ID. : See 1997-10213-as for abstract. ---------------------- "Music as visual language." Author : Haar, James In : Lavin, Irving [Editor]; Meaning in the visual arts: Views from the outside. [United States] Princeton: Princeton U.; pp. 265-284; 1995. The use of notation in painting and decorative arts conveys meaning to the musically literate viewer, and such unheard music could be an important adjunct to iconographic schemes. The following works of art are discussed, with reference to their music notation: Dosso Dossi's «Allegory of music» (Museo Horne, Florence), which includes the mensuration canon from Desprez's «Missa "L'homme armé"»; Vittore Carpaccio's «St. Augustine in his study» (Venice, Scuola Dalmata dei SS. Giorgio e Trifone); Hermann tom Ring's portrait of Johannes Münstermann (Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte); the «studiolo» of Federico da Montefeltro in Urbino; and the «grotta» of Isabella d'Este Gonzaga in Mantua. (Blazekovic, Zdravko)
El MM.40 de la Biblioteca Municipal de Oporto fuente única de la Misa "L'homme armé" de F. Guerrero, Misa pequeña de C. Morales y de otras novedades. [MS MM.40 in the Biblioteca Municipal, Porto: The only source for the Misa "L'homme armé" by F. Guerrero, the Misa pequeña by C. Morales, and other newly discovered works.] Author : Llorens Cisteró, José María In : González Valle, José Vicente [Editor]; En el septuagésimo aniversario de Josep Maria Llorens. [On the seventieth birthday of José María Llorens.]. Anuario Musical [Spain] 1994; Vol. 49; 1994; pp. 75 -102; Music, charts, diagr.
Guerrero's L'homme armée Masses and their models. Author: Rees, Owen Lewis Source: Early Music History Vol. 12; 1993; pp. 19-54; Music ISSN: 0261-1279. Publication Type: article in a periodical or yearbook; ap Major Topic: Historical musicology - To ca. 1600 (Renaissance) Abstract: A study of three «L'homme armé» Masses related to Guerrero: one discovered in Avila, one in Oporto, and one by Guerrero's teacher Morales. Earlier evidence indicated that the Avila Mass was by Guerrero. The Oporto Mass lacks harmonic direction, clear articulation, cadences, and textual variety, and therefore must have been written by a student.
The performance of Josquin's L'homme armé Masses. Author: Sherr, Richard Source: Early Music [United Kingdom]; Vol. 19; Issue 2; May 1991; pp. 261-268; Facs., music Abstract: Mensuration signs as indicators of changes in relative tempo are considered in connection with Josquin's «Missa L'homme armé super voces musicales» and «Missa L'homme armé sexti toni». The signatures /C and O2 seem to have called for faster tempos in relation to O, but this is not reflected in the recent recording of the Masses by the Tallis Scholars.
Tracing the careers of late medieval composers: The case of Philippe Basiron of Bourges. Author: Higgins, Paula Source: Acta Musicologica Vol. 62; Issue 1; Jan-Apr 1990; pp. 1-28 Abstract: Records at the Sainte-Chapelle, Bourges, show that Philippe Basiron was an important figure in the 15th-c. musical life of the church and suggests musical exchanges between Bourges and churches in Tours, with important implications for the origins of the «Homme armé» tradition. Basiron's training as a «maîtrise» choirboy is outlined, and problems of the identity of various musicians referred to as "Philippon" in the records are discussed. A chronology of Basiron's life from 1458 to 1491 is appended.
"Two fifteenth-century songs and their texts in a close reading." Author: Planchart, Alejandro Enrique Collection: Basler Jahrbüch für historische Musikpraxis. XIV (1990): Musik und Tanz im 15. Jahrhundert Source: Basler Jahrbuch für historische Musikpraxis [ Switzerland]; 1990; Vol. 14; 1990; pp. 13-36; Abstract: A close examination of Robert Morton's «Il sera pour vous--L'homme armé» and Guillaume Dufay's «Craindre vous vueuil» from the point of view of text setting. The surviving sources provide a clear and purposeful guide to the text setting, but in both cases there are problems caused by the nature of the songs, a combinative chanson in one case and a reworking of a previous song in the other, as well as by occasional scribal errors. Procedures for solving the problems of text underlay in these works, based on an analysis of phrase structure, can be generalized and applied to other 15th-c. song repertoires. An incidental result of the specific analysis of the two songs is the clarification of previously problematic questions of date and authorship.
Studien zu den L'homme armé-Messen des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts. [Studies on the L'homme armé Masses of the 15th and 16th centuries.] Author: HAASS, Walter Series: Kölner Beiträge zur Musikforschung Source: Vol. 136, (Regensburg: Bosse, 1984) 168 p. Music examples. In German. Abstract: Examines the origins of the chanson, and analyzes Masses by Dufay, Busnois, Ockeghem, Tinctoris, Josquin, Obrecht, and Senfl, among others.
The L'homme armé Masses of Busnoys and Okeghem: A comparison. Author: PERKINS, Leeman Source: Journal of Musicology [United States]; Vol. III/4 (fall 1984) 363-96. Music examples. Abstract: Evidence shows that Busnois and Ockeghem met, in person. Stylistic evidence from their L'homme armé Masses also indicates that they may have shared compositional ideas. (David L. Austin)
Le due messe L'homme armé di Josquin. [ Josquin's two L'homme armé Masses.] Author: GUIDOBALDI, Nicoletta Source: Rivista Italiana di Musicologia [Italy]; Vol. XVIII/2 (1983) 193-202. In Italian. ISSN: 0035-6867. Publication Type: article in a periodical or yearbook; ap Major Topic: HISTORICAL MUSICOLOGY - To ca. 1600 (Renaissance) Abstract: Offers an interpretation of Josquin's Masses constructed on the melody of L'homme armé, printed by Ottaviano Petrucci in his first collection devoted entirely to the works of the composer (Venice, 1502). (Pinuccia Carrer)
Fortuna del tenor L'Homme arme nel primo Rinascimento. [Success of the tenor L'Homme arme in the early Renaissance.] Author: CARACI, Maria Author Source: Roma, Italy Source: Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana [Italy]; Vol. IX/2 (April-July 1975) 171-204. Music examples. From the mid-15th to mid-16th c. there are about 34 Masses composed on the L'Homme arme tenor, a unique case of extraordinary success attained by a secular melody in sacred polyphonic composition. The author analyzes the characteristics of the melody in its older sources (two chansons) and examines its use in polyphonic Masses from 1460-80, including those by Busnois, Ockeghem, Dufay, Aron, Regis, Faugues, and Tinctoris, as well as the anonymous Mass in MS Q 16 in Bologna. A comparison of the stylistic traits of these Masses with those of other important polyphonic Masses leads to the conclusion that the melody certainly influenced the following facets of the L'Homme arme Masses: the formal structure; their orderly and symmetric form; their harmonic structure, which was moving toward the birth of tonal sensitivity; and their rhythmic and melodic characteristics, which partly inspired the creation of counterpoint.