- Baude Cordier
Baude Cordier (*ca. 1380 in
Rheims , died before 1440) was a Frenchcomposer fromRheims ; it has been suggested that Cordier was thenom de plume of Baude Fresnel. [Reany, Gilbert, "Cordier, Baude" "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians", ed.Stanley Sadie . London, Macmillan, 1980. (20 vol.) ISBN 1-56159-174-2] Cordier's works are considered among the prime examples ofars subtilior . In line with that cultural trend, he was fond of using red note notation, also known as coloration, a technique stemming from the general practice ofmensural notation . The change in color adjusts the rhythm of a particular note from its usual form. (This musical style and type of notation has also been termed "mannerism" and "mannered notation.") ["See" Parrish, Carl. The Notation of Medieval Music. W. W. Norton, 1957.)]Ten of Cordier's secular pieces survive, most of which are
rondeaux :
* some are in the rhythmically complex late fourteenth-century French style ofars subtilior , such as "Amans amés secretement" (Lovers, love discretely). [Transcribed with commentary in Archibald T. Davison andWilli Apel : Historical Anthology of Music (HAM): Oriental, Medieval and Renaissance Music (Harvard University Press)]
* others are simpler, with greater emphasis on lyrical melody, such as "Belle, Bonne, Sage", also transcribed in HAM, and characterized with "Amans" as a rondeau.Two of the composer's chansons are in the Chantilly Manuscript and are well-known examples of
eye music :
* the love song "Belle, Bonne, Sage" ("Beautiful, Good, Wise"). Themanuscript is in the shape of a heart. For an additional fillip ofeye music , hanging like a locket in the upper left are notes all in red also in the shape of a heart. [ [http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/Cordier.php A modern transcription and music media file of "Belle, Bonne, Sage"."] ] [ [http://www.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Belle,_bonne,_sage_(Baude_Cordier) The text and English translation of the song] ]
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Cordier 's "Tout par compas suy composés."]
* a circular canon "Tout par compas suy composés" ("With a compass was I composed")—more eye music, in which the manuscript is written in a circle. [ [http://www.answers.com/topic/tout-par-compas-suy-compos-s-for-3-voices?cat=entertainment More details on text and performance and links to recorded performances of "Tout par compas] ] [Bergsagel, John. "Cordier's Circular Canon," The Musical Times, 113, No. 1558 (Dec., 1972), pp. 1175-1177]His mass movement in the Apt MS is in the later, simpler fifteenth-century style.
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