Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae
work by Josquin des Prez
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use of hexachord cantus firmus
- In cantus firmus
…cavato (“carved-out subject”) for his Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae, honouring the duke of Ferrara, the vowels of whose Latin name yielded the solmization syllables of the hexachord. Popular songs also furnished cantus firmi for keyboard variations by William Byrd (1543–1623), Antonio de Cabezón (1510–66), and others.
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