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Dufay: Flos Florum
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Details
- Composer
- DUFAY, GUILLAUME
- Artist
- ENSEMBLE MUSICA NOVA
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Alpha
- Released
- Aug 24, 2018
- Catalog #
- ALPHA349
- UPC
- 3760014193491
About
Like many of his contemporaries, Guillaume Dufay was greatly devoted to the Virgin Mary. His Marian works comprise liturgical pieces sung during the Mass or the Office, but also religious motets written to new poems. It was probably during his first period in the chapel of the dukes of Savoy that Dufay produced a complete cycle of polyphonic hymns for the Office of Vespers of the principal feasts. Their interpretation obeys the principle of alternatim chant, that is to say alternation between monophonic odd-numbered verses, sung in plainchant, and even-numbered polyphonic verses. Dufay employs here the techniques of composition already in use in the fourteenth century. The liturgical melody is sung in the highest voice but appears transformed according to the principles of paraphrase: the composer's inventive contribution, in this context, resides in the flexibility of the mensuration (often ternary) and the grace of his ornamentation. The other two, lower voices accompany it in a virtually homophonic style. The influence of the improvisatory practice known as 'fauxbourdon' is manifest. In it's simple form, the melody of the cantus is doubled by the tenor and the contratenor, respectively a sixth and a fourth lower. The result is a succession of highly characteristic chords, interrupted only for the cadences.
Tracklist 13 tracks
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1 Salve flos Tusce / Vos nunc Etruscorum iubar / Viri mendaces 05:40
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Salve flos Tusce / Vos nunc Etruscorum iubar / Viri mendaces
- Duration
- 05:40
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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2 Urbs beata Jerusalem 05:51
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Urbs beata Jerusalem
- Duration
- 05:51
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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3 Flos florum 03:51
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Flos florum
- Duration
- 03:51
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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4 Ave regina caelorum 02:14
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Ave regina caelorum
- Duration
- 02:14
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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5 Ave regina caelorum 08:00
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Ave regina caelorum
- Duration
- 08:00
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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6 Ave regina reparatrix 01:57
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Ave regina reparatrix
- Duration
- 01:57
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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7 Mirandas parit hec urbs, "Imperatrix angelorum" 04:47
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Mirandas parit hec urbs, "Imperatrix angelorum"
- Duration
- 04:47
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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8 Ave maris stella 05:34
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Ave maris stella
- Duration
- 05:34
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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9 Inclita stella maris 03:24
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Inclita stella maris
- Duration
- 03:24
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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10 Anima mea lique facta est 02:41
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Anima mea lique facta est
- Duration
- 02:41
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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11 Jesu corona virginum 04:08
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Jesu corona virginum
- Duration
- 04:08
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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12 Ave virgo que de celis 03:55
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Ave virgo que de celis
- Duration
- 03:55
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova
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13 Gaude virgo mater Christi 04:10
- Track
- 13
- Title
- Gaude virgo mater Christi
- Duration
- 04:10
- Composer
- Guillaume Dufay
- Ensemble
- Musica Nova