Hello again SkepsisNation, and welcome to the test-drive of Ol’ Doc’s Juke Box.
As a retired professional church singer, and having done a stint as an FM radio jazz DJ, my musical interests are many and varied. I plan to use this new Sub-Sub of Cheap Thoughts to share music both close to my heart and worthy of your time.
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Today’s inaugural installment of the Juke Box presents the music of Guillaume Dufay, one of the greatest of the ‘Franco-Flemish’ composers of Europe’s early Renaissance, AKA the Quattrocento (1400s):
Dufay: Music for St. Anthony of Padua - YouTube 2
From the booklet notes by Andrew Kirkman:
It seems fitting that, although the annual repetitions intended for Dufay’s great Mass by its composer have long since ended, modern technology now allows us to commit it to another kind of permanence: that of a recording.
With this development, unimaginable to Dufay, his great musical prayer can reach ever more ears — guaranteeing it (though not in any way he could ever have foreseen or intended) a sort of perpetuity.
Ours may not be the heavenly ears for which it was intended, but we can be confident that they will, in their own way, appreciate it just as well.
For further info on the many recordings of Pere Dufay’s music, check out his page on Discogs.
Enjoy!
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