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Ockeghem, Johannes: 2 Rondeaux

for 4 voices or instruments.

The secular works of Johannes Ockeghem (c. 1410-1497) have been somewhat neglected in our time, partly because until recently there was no complete edition. This is a pity, because the relatively small corpus of surviving pieces (about a quarter of the total by Ockeghem´s contemporary Antoine Busnois) is of remarkable quality.
J´en ay dueil is printed after London, British Library, Royal App. 20. A. xvi, where no composer is given; the attribution is from Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio, MS Basevi 2439 and from Petrucci. It is remarkable for the rather large distance between the cantus and the remaining parts, and in fact an alternative version survives with the parts brought closer together. S´elle m´amera \ Petite camusette is printed after the Chansonnier Nivelle de la Chaussée (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, MS Rés Vmc. 57); it also appears in many other sources, and was obviously one of the more popular works of its time. It its what is technically known as a combinative chanson: the top part has a regular rondeau. text which requires to be performed in the normal rondeau scheme ABAAABAB, while the three lower parts are based on the popular song “Petite camusette”, which was arranged by many younger composers (3-part setting by Antoine de Févin, 4-part by Adrian Willaert, 6-part by Josquin des Près, 7-part by Crecquillon, etc.). In performing this as a rondeau, when going from an A to another A (i.e. from verses 3 to 4, or 4 to 5), it is necessary for the top part to wait until the remaining voices have reached their respective fermatas.
In this edition the original note values have been halved throughout; editorial accidentals are printed small above the stave, applying to the one note only.