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This edition presents eight settings of texts drawn from Book IV of the Aeneid—the first polyphonic music known for verse by Virgil—including a remarkable series of six related settings of Dido’s lament, ‘Dulces exuvie’. The six works seem to have been written in some sort of collaborative effort by a group of Franco-Flemish composers—Agricola, De Orto, possibly Josquin, Mouton, and Ghiselin, and a sixth, anonymous musician—upon some occasion at the Habsburg-Burgundian court around the year 1505 which cannot now be identified with certainty. The music is expressive and varied, cast largely in a plangent Phrygian mode and in the mostly non-imitative style of the late fifteenth century. For four voices: ATTB or ATBarB and continuo. xxii + 33 pages. 2025. ISMN 979-0-57039-210-0.
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