Masters, Monsters & Mazes covers a repertory that's often mentioned in the first half of college music history survey courses, often discussed and referred to by composers and theorists in defense of intentionally highly complex music, but not so often actually performed: the arcane polyphony of late fourteenth century France. The best-known example of this music is the manuscript of Baude Cordier's chanson Belle, bonne, sage, using red and black notes to indicate rhythms and charmingly shaped like a heart. That work, ...
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Masters, Monsters & Mazes covers a repertory that's often mentioned in the first half of college music history survey courses, often discussed and referred to by composers and theorists in defense of intentionally highly complex music, but not so often actually performed: the arcane polyphony of late fourteenth century France. The best-known example of this music is the manuscript of Baude Cordier's chanson Belle, bonne, sage, using red and black notes to indicate rhythms and charmingly shaped like a heart. That work, strangely, isn't included here, and neither, despite the emphasis Trefoil places on the role of subtle symbolism in this repertory, is the murky Fumeux fumeurs with its wonderfully strange text about smoke and smokers. Instead, as the album's title indicates, Trefoil focuses on texts that refer to medieval bestiaries -- books about animals both real and imagined -- and their symbolic uses in poems that praise a sovereign. Listeners who are in love with what's often called the medieval...
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