"Have pity on Dufay as he sleeps," reads part of the text to Guilliame Dufay's "Ave regina coelorum," "lest he fall into the fire where sinners burn." In the fifteenth century, it was nothing unusual for a musician to compose an epitaph for one's self, and it was part of the job description for an expert composer to produce music in observance of the deaths of important dignitaries, noblemen fallen on the battlefields, conspicuous clerics, and others of note. In the course of this survey of early "death music," Gaudeamus' ...
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"Have pity on Dufay as he sleeps," reads part of the text to Guilliame Dufay's "Ave regina coelorum," "lest he fall into the fire where sinners burn." In the fifteenth century, it was nothing unusual for a musician to compose an epitaph for one's self, and it was part of the job description for an expert composer to produce music in observance of the deaths of important dignitaries, noblemen fallen on the battlefields, conspicuous clerics, and others of note. In the course of this survey of early "death music," Gaudeamus' In Memoria: Medieval Songs of Remembrance, the Clerks' Group, the superb English period vocal group led by Edward Wickham, performs some musical memorials even written by one musician to another, such as Ockeghem's "Mort tu as navré" composed at the passing of Gilles Binchois in 1460. Bookended by the standard Gregorian antiphon "Requiem aeternam," the melody of which drives the undercurrent in much of the music here, Wickham and the Clerks' Group give up the ghosts of musical works...
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