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music to for the Cantus Firmus on which they would base the rest
of their Mass. One of the most popular choices was the song
eight phrases and is divided into and ABA form. This itself isnt
too odd, but the fact that the whole piece is made up of 30
the 30 chevaliers of the order and the one master. This was first
his mass titled Missa Lhomme Arme, although the song had been
contention over who wrote this Chanson and some even have
good reason to believe that DuFay himself was also the composer
it(4).
Around the same time frame that DuFay was composing his Missa
than likely that the two of them both knew that the other was
toy with the piece through the following century such as Josquin,
not arise out of the folk tradition, but rather was created for the
that the two are both in the Dorian mode, which was fairly
still hadnt been received to the capacity that it had been in the
concept of a parody mass in his work O bone Jesu. Yet after his
We know from a few select sources from the time that the song
firmus, and we can clearly see similarities between the two, yet
Bibliography:
3) Gustav
5) http://www.cengage.com/music/book_content/049557273X_wrigh
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