Burgundy and Guillaume Du Fay Objectives

• Burgundy (the place, not the color) • Guillaume Du Fay and his patrons • Mass settings – learn your Mass styles!!! Modern Burgundy

Burgundy The Duchy of Burgundy (1400s) W/T 22: “ at Burgundian Festivities” (Olivier de la Marche) In the grand and spacious hall hung with tapestries there were three tables. On one stood a church with a chiming bell and four singers who sang and played the organ when their turn came. On another was pastry in which 28 living persons played on diverse instruments, each in turn. . . . Then . . . a horse came trotting backwards through the entranceway, and on this horse were seated two players. They played a fanfare on their instruments, as the horse was led up and down through the banquet hall. After this, the organ players in the church began to play most sweetly, and when these finished, from the pastry there came the sound of a cornet, [and] a and a sweet pipe, with yet another instrument in harmony. importance of Burgundy

• source of patronage • breeding ground of master ‐singers • center of cosmopolitan musical style Guillaume Du Fay, Resvellies vous, NAWM 36 Verse 1 Verse 2 a. Awake and be merry, a. He has chosen a lady, fair and good, all lovers who love gentleness; by whom he will be greatly honored, a. frolic and flee melancholy. a. for she comes from a very noble Tire not of serving yourself well. lineage of barons who are much b. for today will be the nuptials, renowned. with great honor and noble b. Her name is Victoria, lordship, and it behooves you, and she descends from the Colonnas. everyone to celebrate thus it is right that his appeal be heard and join the happy company. to live honestly with this lady. C. Noble Charles, who is named C. Noble Charles, who is named Malatesta. Malatesta. Guillaume Du Fay, Resvellies vous, NAWM 36 • Resvellies vous Verse 1 – a. Awake and be merry, – wedding all lovers who love gentleness; announcement a. frolic and flee melancholy. – emphasis on Tire not of serving yourself well. patron – melismas b. for today will be the nuptials, – melodic variety with great honor and noble lordship, – fermata section and it behooves you, everyone to celebrate and join the happy company. – musical refrain C. Noble Charles, who is named Malatesta. Music and History the “power vacuum”

• Guelphs vs. Ghibellines • merceneries (condottieri) – E.g., Charles Malatesta Polyphonic Masses • Mass Ordinary • Borrowed material • Compositional process (mass type) Missa Se la face ay pale (1450s) NAWM 38 • mass • motto mass/ head motive • tenor from ballade: Se la face ay pale (1430s) – motives in other voices as well – isorhythmic(ish) • three statements of color (3 different mensurations) conclusions

• music composed for patrons – Resvellies vous – public image, legitimizes patron – Missa Se la face ay pale – incorporates popular song Binchois

• De plus en plus • • English traits