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Antoine Brumel (Nogent-le-Rotrou, Chartres, ca. 1460 - ? ca. 1515) was one of the most important musicians active between the 15th and 16th century whose name is cited in contemporary theoretical treatises as those of Ornithoparchus, Gaffurius, Glarean and Zarlino. He was probably the first composer of the Renaissance period of French rather than Flemish origin. The first actual information about him relates to 1483, the year in which Brumel appears in the lists of the Chartres Cathedral as horarius et matutinarius. Later he became director of the boys' choir at St. Peter's Cathedral in Geneva, where he remained until 1492, when he moved first to Laon and later in 1498 to Notre-Dame in Paris, a job which he left two years later. He moved to Italy in July 1505, working at the prestigious court of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, as maestro di cappella with a salary much superior to that of his contemporaries, an aspect which reveals the great estimation and consideration which the composer enjoyed. After the experience in Ferrara, which definitely concluded in 1510 - the year when the Este cappella was closed - there is no more precise information relating to Brumel's life and activity, with the exception of a reference in a treatise by Vincenzo Galilei, which cites the musician among the composers present in Rome for the election of Pope Leo X in 1513, an occasion in which the Missa de Beata Virgine had probably been composed, perhaps his last work .The present edition of the responsory Quae est ista for four voices is based on the version copied down in ms. Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare, cod. DCCLVIII (I-VEcap 758).1 This codex belongs to a collection of eight Renaissance music manuscripts owned by the Biblioteca Capitolare of the city of Verona, mainly relating to the Verona area and used by the Scuola degli Accoliti, an institution connected to the Cathedral, which probably used them during its activities. The said codices contain mainly sacred polyphonic compositions meant for the main sections of the Mass and Liturgy of the Hours.From the point of view of composition, the piece alternates homorhythmic sections with other imitative ones on the text of a responsory inspired by the Song of Songs, the book of the Bible whose verses were used many times for liturgical texts meant for feasts devoted to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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