Essays on Renaissance Music in Honour of David Fallows: Bon jour, bon mois et bonne estrenne

This volume celebrates the work of David Fallows, one of the most influential scholars in the field of medieval and Renaissance music. It draws together articles by scholars from around the world, focusing on key topics to which Fallows has contributed significantly: the life and works of Guillaume Du Fay and of Josquin Desprez, archival studies and biography, sacred and secular music of the late mediaeval and Renaissance period, and reception history. Studies include major archival discoveries concerning the identity of the composer Fremin Caron; a reconsideration of the authorship of works within the Josquin canon, notably "Mille regretz" and "Absalon fili mi"; a fresh look at key works from Du Fay's youth and early maturity; accounts of newly discovered sources and works; and an appraisal of David Fallows' contribution to the early music performance movement by Christopher Page, former director of Gothic Voices. The collection also includes two newly published compositions dedicated to David Fallows.

CONTENIDO:

-List of illustrations
-List of abbreviations

Preface

Preludio
-David Fallows and the performance of Medieval music (Christopher Page)

I. Sources and archives
-Fremin le Caron at Amiens: new documents (Rob C. Wegman)
-"Ung Petit cadeau": verbal and visual play in the Wolfenbüttel Chansonnier (Jane Alden)
-A new tenor on "So ys emprentid" (Bonnie J. Blackburn)
-Shedding new light (literally) on the Rochester Fascicle: a preliminary report (Honey Meconi)
-Two musical letters from Aragonese Naples (Gianluca d'Agostino)
-Johannes Sohier "dit" Fede and St Omer: a story of pragmatic sanctions (Andrew Kirkman)

Intermedio I
-Yes, we were young... (Jaap van Benthem)

II. Du Fay
-Petrach, Padua, the Malatestas, Du Fay, and "Vergene bella" (Margaret Bent)
-A suggestion about Fauxbourdon (James Haar)
-Du Fay's plainsong paraphrase settings (Alejandro Enrique Planchart)
-With a flourish: melismatic writing in Du Fay's early songs (Jesse Rodin)
-"Portugaler": Guillaume Du Fay's contribution to instrumental music? (Lorenz Welker)

III. Sacred music
-A reconsideration of the mass cycle by Arnold de Lantins and Ciconia in Bologna Q15 (Kinuho Endo)
-Martini and Obrecht: some speculations (Joshua Rifkin)
-The art of cellular counterpoint: the motets od Petrus Wilhelmi (Thomas Schmidt-Beste)
-What were they thinking? "Sola caret monstris" at the Papal court (Richard Sherr)
-A Gloria newly attributed to Byttering (Peter Wright)

Intermedio II
-Agricola VIII / Obrecht Canon III (Fabrice Fitch)

IV. Songs
-A new song in a strange land? Garcimuños's "Una montaña pasando" (Tess Knighton)
-Isaac's pre-Italian songs: an over-optimistic hand-list (Warwick Edwards)
-Words and music in the Sea of Long Waiting (Adam Knight Gilbert)
-"Dieu vous doinst hui en bonne estraine tout le desir de vostre coeur": observations on Binchois's "Margarite, fleur de valeur" (Markus Jans)
-Three Times Seven Songs by Byrd (Oliver Neighbour)
-"I must complain": a comparative study in variant settings (Anthony Rooley)
-Heinrich Isaac and shifting musical perspectives, c.1485-1490 (Keith Polk)

V. Josquin
-"Plaine de dueil et de melancolie": tracing a negative of Josquin des Prez (Jaap van Benthem)
-Surface, structure and "style" in "Absalon fili mi" (John Milsom)
-Who really knows who composed "Mille regretz"? (Fabrice Fitch)
-Josquin, two Contrafacta, and the lost Stanzas of "Comment peult avoir joye" (Jeffrey J. Dean)
-"In pace in idipsum": a little-known motet attributed to Josquin (Eric Jas)

Intermedio III
-Verspätete Monologe: Brahms' "Klavierstücke" op. 116, 117, 118 und 119 (Peter Gülke)

VI. Cultural and reception history
-Confessional companions: Herpol, Glareanus, and friends (Iain Fenlon)
-Credit for music in court and city in the Low Countries, 1467-1500 (Barbara Haggh)
-"David musicus", or: on the consoling power of string musci (Dagmar Hoffmann-Axthelm)
-The "Laudes musicae" in Renaissance music treatises (Leofranc Holford-Strevens)
-The role of music in Sixteenth-Century German city life: a close look at the iconography of Hans Sach's and Jost Amman's "Ständebuch" (Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl)
-The perfect Spanish chapelmaster: the depiction of the composer Ginés Pérez in Felipe Pedrell's "Hispaniae schola musica sacra" (Esperanza Rodríguez-García)
-The "Topstukkendecreet" in Flanders and its musical context: the case of Glareanus' "Dodekachordon" (Eugeen Schreurs)
-The difference of early European music (Reinhard Strohm)

Principal publications of David Fallows
Contributors
Index
Tabula gratulatoria