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'Doulce Memoire'
like 'De tous biens plaine', 'J'ay pris amours' and 'Fors
('Las qu'on congneust mon vouloir sans le dire' and 'Si mon
travail vous peult donner plaisir') attributed to Claudin by
Attaingnant,3 whereas Moderne at Lyons ascribes them to
x Printed in 6o Chansons zu vier Stimmen, ed. Robert Eitner (Publikation
aelterer praktischer und theoretischer Musikwerke, xxiii), Leipzig, 1899,
pp. 103-4.
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MMOIRE
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poetry as his principal distraction during his long imprisonment; much of his correspondence with his literary-minded
sister, Marguerite de Navarre, his mother Louise de Savoie,
and with various court ladies (including the notorious Diane
de Poitiers) has survived. This deepened interest made him a
more avid and discerning patron of verse. His mentors in-
In musical sources before Ronsard's Amours of 1552, however, and even in many literary collections both manuscript
and printed, no poet is mentioned. Thus 'Doulce memoire'
was anonymous in a manuscript of poems by Marot and his
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be ruled out, although it does not appear in any of the contemporary or subsequent editions of his work. One late source
Senfl, Othmayr and others, and the psalm-settings of Utendhal. The fourth example illustrating the Dorian mode quotes
the whole of Sandrin's superius, which is superscribed 'Quartum exemplum Clementis Maroti'.a
Ex. 1
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3A
It
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-voir. Or main-te - nant a per- du son pou - voir Rom - pant le but de ma scull'
voir.
20
25
es- pi - ran - cc, Setr - vant d'ex -em - ple tous pt - teux a voir. Fi-ni
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cc.
articulated in such a way as to be inevitably part of a polyphonic complex; the cadential formulae are typical of the
Claudin-type polyphony, and are rarely found, for example,
in the monophonic pieces of the Bibliothbque Nationale MSS
1s J. Rollin, Les Chansons de ClUment Marot, Paris, 1950, passim.
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fr. 9346 and 12744.13 Sandrin's melody does not have the tonal
a)
C1
If
".
'
b)
TEXTUAL PARODIES
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Mass., 1965).
1 Schermer 236, No. 9.
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bicinium version).19
Christ:
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ture des Periers, who suggests the piece for the joyful celebrations of St. Martin's Day (15 May) in 1539.21
Viens soulas Chantons en une
Nous rendre las Fortune
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Ouvrier expert
Avecques sons
De chansons
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ance.b
Er. 3
I I 1, . ,--I
(F1
b)
--
voir
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at Venice in 1543-." This is the only example which abandons
the original superius, instead paraphrasing Sandrin's tenor in
canon at the octave between tenor and superius, with occasional hints of parody in the other voices. There is, however,
nothing archaic in the sonorous tonally-orientated harmony
and the chromatic inflexions of the melody at the emotional
climaxes.0
with the opening descent. The second Kyrie begins with the
27 Cf. Howard Brown, 'The Chanson Spirituelle, Jacques Buus, and Parody
Technique', Journal of the American Musicological Society, xv (1962), I45-73-
28 Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Opera Omnia, ed. K. Ph. Bernet Kempers
(Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae, iv), iv (1953), 8-9.
29 Liber Usualis, p. 207.
30 RISM 15661. Cf. Charles van den Borren, Geschiedenis van de muziek in de
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keyboard tablature) in E. N. Ammerbach's Orgel oder Instrument Tabulaturbuch published by Gerlach at Nuremberg in
3S Obras de musica para tecla, arpa y vihuela, Madrid, 1578, f. 82; printed in
Antologia de organista clasicos espanoles, ed. F. Pedrell, Madrid, 1908.
4' Facsimile in Tabulatura organowa Jana z Lublina, ed. K. Wilkowska Chominiska (Monumenta Musicae in Polonia, Seria B, vol. i), Warsaw, 1964,
ff. 197"-198; transcribed in Music of the Polish Renaissance, ed. J. M.
Chomixiski and Z. Lissa, Warsaw, I955, pp. 82-83, and in Johannes of
Lublin: Tablature of Keyboard Music, ed. John R. White (Corpus of Early
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survives in manuscript at Munich." There are also two versions for cittern by Sebastian Vreedman and Sixt Kargel."7
The last type to be considered are the written-out illustrations of divisions for viols found in three collections. The first,
followed by four ricercars for solo viol, the first and third
ornamenting the bass line, the second the superius, and the
changing clefs from the original bass to its superius, while the
the fact that the first and last notes are in long rhythmic
values.
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The following musical illustrations were heard during the course of the
lecture:
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APPENDIX
First
line
Composer
Jane
Jane
Jane
Vill
Mo
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Arca
Clau
Janeq
Cr6q
**** The two-voice parody by Layolle was printed by Moderne later-I 53818/1539
Daniel Heartz's study of Pierre Attaingnant (University of California Press, Berkeley and
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