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Jacques Moderne's ‘Parangon Des Chansons’

A Bibliography of Music and Poetry at Lyon 1538–1543

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 1974

Frank Dobbins
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The most significant corpus of secular polyphony published at Lyon was Moderne's Parangon des Chansons which appeared between 1538 & 1543. Du Verdier, writing in 1584, claims that the series comprised eighteen books but his figure may refer to the totality of Moderne's secular polyphony and therefore include the reprints of the first four books, the two books of the Difficile des Chansons or the two books of canzoni by Layolle and the Petrarch settings of Rampollini. At all events only eleven books of the Parangon are known and there is no other evidence that Moderne revived the series after 1544. The subject of their typographical characteristics is comprehensively treated in Pogue's monograph on Moderne, but the same cannot be said for the musical and literary characteristics; the present study provides analytical comments on, and a listing of the concordances of, the 288 pieces contained in the various editions of the first ten books which survive in public libraries.

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R.M.A. Research Chronicle , Volume 12 , 1974 , pp. 1 - 90
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Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1974

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