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To: AnAmericanMother

Interesting. Indeed, the instrumentation (while now notable for simple novelty) lagged way behind the music of the time.


14 posted on 08/31/2009 6:00:37 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (flag@whitehouse.gov may bounce messages but copies may be kept. Informants are still solicited.)
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To: ctdonath2
The vocal music is outstanding. Thank goodness somebody invented music notation before DuFay's Masses were lost.

Our choirmaster is an early music fan (he took his master's at Oregon, which is Early Music Central) and he's determined to have us sing a complete DuFay Mass someday . . . if you're used to singing modern music the early stuff will throw you for a loop. The harmonies and everything are SO different. And it sounds strange to modern ears - strange but beautiful.

17 posted on 08/31/2009 6:31:18 AM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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