In the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples there is a fifteenth-century manuscript containing six masses all based on the cantus firmus of the popular tune L'homme Armé. The front pages of these masses are neatly razored out owing to some miniature harvesting in antiquity, depriving us not only of key parts from within the musical texts but also of any composer attribution that may have appeared on those pages. This has produced one of the most hotly debated issues in renaissance music; Judith Cohen -- who has edited the masses ...
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In the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples there is a fifteenth-century manuscript containing six masses all based on the cantus firmus of the popular tune L'homme Armé. The front pages of these masses are neatly razored out owing to some miniature harvesting in antiquity, depriving us not only of key parts from within the musical texts but also of any composer attribution that may have appeared on those pages. This has produced one of the most hotly debated issues in renaissance music; Judith Cohen -- who has edited the masses for their first publication in 1981 -- Richard Taruskin and most others have adduced in favor of Franco-Flemish composer Antoine Busnois. Even some writers from Busnois' own time credit him with the composition of the tune L'homme Armé; modern scholars find ample stylistic resonance between these six masses and the one L'homme Armé mass Busnois is known to have composed. However, Don Giller contends that these masses are the work of Busnois' non-Burgundian contemporary Firminus...
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