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A hidden arrangement of Gentil madonna
David Fallows
In: Timothy J. McGee, Stewart Carter, editor(s). Instruments, ensembles, and repertory, 1300–1600: Essays in honour of Keith Polk. Turnhout: Brepols; 2013. p. 299-308.
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Abstract
The Bedyngham song normally known as Gentil madonna was one of the most successful musical works of the 1440s. The Codex SpeciálnÃk in Hradec Kralové, from after 1490, contains a version that -- when disentangled -- adds a florid higher voice and a lower voice to Bedyngham's Discantus and Tenor. The style of the top voice raises again the old and still unresolved questions of an instrumental style in the music of the fifteenth century.