LISTENING
Anonymous: L'Homme armé [Date and Original Context Unknown]
        Score: Atlas Text pp. 124-125        CD 3, Track 10        Length: 0:37
        What are some of the hypotheses regarding the origin of this tune?

Antoine Busnoys (first record 1461 - died c. 1492): Missa L'homme armé: Agnus Dei
        Score: Anthology #21        CD 3, Track 11            Length: 5:25
        Translation of Text: Atlas Anthology p. 487
        How does Busnoys use the cantus firmus in this movement (in terms of both melodic line and formal design)?

Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum: Kyrie
        Score: Anthology #24        CD 3, Track 12          Length: 4:52
        How is this mass a "cycle of canons at different intervals"?
        Describe some of the prolation tricks used in this mass.  Use the Kyrie as an example.
                    What is a double-mensuration canon?
        What is the technical trick employed in the Christe section of this movement?

Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Fors seulement: Kyrie
        Score: Anthology #25b       CD 4, Track 3            Length: 3:57
        How does Ockeghem rework the entire polyphonic texture of the song Fors seulement in the Kyrie?
        Atlas says that Ockeghem "reworks the original polyphonic fabric in an almost fantasia-like manner."
                      Why did he say this?

OPTIONAL
Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum: Sanctus
        Score: Anthology #24        CD 3, Track 13          Length: 7:20

Antoine Busnoys: In hydraulis [Motet; Between 1465 and 1467]
        Score: Anthology #23        CD 4, Track 1            Length: 8:33
        Translation of Text: Atlas Anthology p. 490
        Describe the cantus firmus of this work.
        Describe the text of the first half of the motet.  How is the text related to the cantus firmus?
        Describe the text of the second half of the motet.  What does it tell us about Busnoys's musical influences?

Johannes Ockeghem: Fors seulement [Rondeau]
        Score: Anthology #25a       CD 4, Track 2            Length: 7:08

Johannes Ockeghem: S'elle m'amera/Petite camusette
        Score: Anthology #28        CD 4, Track 4            Length: 4:29
        How is this a "combinative chanson"?

REVIEW QUESTIONS
1.  In terms of the polyphonic settings of the Mass Ordinary, what two innovations emerged around the 1450s?
2.  How is the Cantus Firmus masses of the third quarter of the fifteenth century different from Du Fay's early Cantus Firmus masses?  (If there is a mystery Cantus Firmus mass on a test, how can you tell whether it is likly from the first half of the century or likely from the second half of the century?)
3.  What is the L'homme armé tradition?  For whom or for what were the early L'homme armé Masses likely destined?  Why is L'homme armé an appropriate cantus firmus for this group/event?
4.  Compare the musical styles of Ockeghem and Du Fay.  If I played a mystery example, how can you tell whether it is by Du Fay or Ockeghem?
 

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