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Classical music world cup, Day 4: Belgium

Composer: Guillaume Dufay (1397? - 1474)

Work: Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys (1426)

Performer: Dominique Vellard, Brigitte Lesne

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Guillaume Dufay - Supremum est mortalibus, isorhythmic motet for 3 voices

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"This is a piece of some importance for music history, being the first datable work in which the technique of fauxbourdon is specifically demanded by the composer. Fauxbourdon (false bass) means in this context that the sampled material from plainchant appears in the top voice rather than in the customary bottom one, and is rhythmically decorated and made fluid enough to sound freely composed in a way that often obscures the source chant to a degree that takes it beyond easy recognition...

The whole motet is rather difficult to situate emotionally. Clear emotional intent is usually what gives today's listeners a sense of a solid grounding in a piece, but since this expresses no easily describable emotion, it feels both weightless and splendidly pure -- all the more so during the passages of fauxbourdon."

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Guillaume Dufay - Par droit je puis bien complaindre et gemir, rondeau for 3 or 4 voices

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