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...Symphony Hall, with Dusolina Giannini as guest artist. It is hard, when looking over the club's program, to know where to begin in singling out individual numbers for special comment. Perhaps one of the most striking is a composition "Ave, Verum Corpus", but Josquin Des Pres, a fifteenth century musician of the Netherlands. Coming just at a time when the technique of counterpoint was being developed, the work is made up essentially of two melodies that float like delicate silver threads now in harmony and now distinct, but always clear until finally they disappear almost imperceptibly as if wafted...
...Italian History in the Fifteenth Century", Professor Post, Fogg Museum, Fine Arts...
...Italian History in the Fifteenth Century," Professor Post. Fogg Museum, Fine Arts...
...until the first quarter of the fifteenth century that we see this style more or less consistently developed, this time in England. John Dunstable, much of whose work has recently come to light, had acquired a European reputation for his songs. For some reason difficult to understand, he was, however, very soon forgotten and became an almost legendary character sometimes called the "inventor" of counterpoint, and, most curious of all, even identified once or twice as St. Duston...
Bearing in it as it does the seeds of future development, choral music of the fifteenth century should be of interest to any music lover, and such a one could do no better than go to the Music Building at 11 o'clock this morning to near Professor Davison lecture on that subject...