The Kyrie from the Missa Carminum, from the 2009 Naxos release Lacrimosa geistliche Musik. Lacrimosa geistliche Musik aus 16 Jahrhunderten Various performers Naxos 2009 / B0050FZBPO Heinrich Isaac (?) Tr. The tenor of the first Kyrie is to our knowledge an as yet unnamed song the Christe employs one of Isaac’s most famous songs, Innsbruck ich muss dich lassen, and the second Kyrie quotes a tune called Bruder Konrad in its tenor: The Missa Carminum, or “Song Mass,” might or might not have been composed by Heinrich Isaac, but it is another sort of quodlibet, in that it combines a number of well-known songs in the context of a traditional Mass proper. ![]() That was John Dunstaple’s setting of O rosa bella in combination with fragments of 22 anonymous German songs, performed by the Joculatores Upsaliensis on their 1994 BIS recording Early Music at Wik. 23 O rosa bella - Quodlibet: O rosa bella (3:50) In the collection is a quodlibet that combines one of the most famous songs of the fifteenth century, Giustiniani’s ballata O rosa bella, as set by the English composer John Dunstaple, with a tenor part containing fragments of 22 different German songs.Įarly Music at Wik Joculatores Upsaliienses BIS 1994 / B000027FEO Dunstaple/Anon Tr. The first is from the Glogauer Liederbuch - not a single book, but a set of three part books copied around 1480. This hour on Harmonia, we’re going to explore Renaissance and Baroque German quodlibets, beginning with a couple of songs that date from before the first use of the word, but clearly illustrate the idea of tunes presented simultaneously. The term quodlibet was first used in reference to music in 1544 in a German publication, and it generally indicated a composition in which well-known melodies and texts appear in successive or simultaneous combinations. When the idea travelled to Germany it became known as the disputatio de quodlibet, and there it evolved into a humorous parody featuring ridiculous lists of items loosely combined under an absurd theme, for instance, objects forgotten by a man leaving a brothel. The Collège de la Sorbonne, officially founded in 1257, required that its doctoral candidates undergo an intellectual gladiatorial contest called the disputatio, a solid twelve hours of rigorous oral examination. Violinist Augusta McKay Lodge played the first movement, “Con discretione,” of the Fantasia in C minor by Nicola Matteis, from the CD “Beyond Bach and Vivaldi: Rare Unaccompanied works for the Baroque Violin.” 11 Nicola Matteis: Fantasia in C Minor, I: Con discretione (4:45) Plus, music from our featured release: Beyond Bach & Vivaldi: Rare Unaccompanied Works for the Baroque Violin, played by violinist Augusta McKay Lodge.īeyond Bach & Vivaldi: Rare Unaccompanied Works for the Baroque Violin Augusta McKay Lodge, violin Naxos 2018 / B07BMK93GQ Tr. This hour on Harmonia we’re going to listen to German quodlibets from the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. The term is most frequently applied to a musical piece that takes several different tunes-usually tunes that are well-known to their intended audience-and mixes them together, usually in some clever contrapuntal way. ![]() ![]() There are several different kinds of musical pieces that can be described as a “quodlibet.” It could be a humorous list of items or a piece in which well-known melodies and texts appear in successive or simultaneous combinations.
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