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- Title
A statistical analysis of the chansons of Arnold and Hugo de Lantins.
- Authors
Beauvois, Michael W.
- Abstract
A statistical analysis of the chansons of Arnold and Hugo de Lantins was able to resolve conflicting manuscript attributions and refine their composition dates by quantitatively evaluating the differences between each song using multidimensional scaling. The variables chosen for analysis acknowledged that the dyadic counterpoint of the superius-tenor duet (the Gerüstsatz) forms the contrapuntal and harmonic core of an early 15th-century chanson, but also honoured the essential contribution of the contratenor to the overall musical texture. The analysis, which clearly discriminated between Arnold and Hugo's songs' indicated that (1) the manuscript composition dates of 1428 for Arnold's Quant je mire and Se ne prenés are erroneous and they were composed before 1425; (2) Hugo's Tra quante regione was composed for the birth of Cleofe Malatesta's first child in 1428' not for her wedding celebrations in 1420-21; and (3) Arnold's Las pouray je and Hugo's Plaindre m'estuet are possibly the result of a 'friendly rivalry' and composed c.1428. These findings indicate that the statistical techniques and analytical procedure used in this study offer a valuable tool to medieval musicologists that could be applied to other repertories with a similar twopart contrapuntal core.
- Subjects
CHANSONS (Renaissance music); MUSIC manuscripts; DE Lantins, Arnold; DE Lantins, Hugo; MUSICOLOGISTS; MEDIEVAL music
- Publication
Early Music, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 4, p527
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/cax108