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The Transmission of Two Secular Latin Songs

April 2004
Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae

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In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries secular medieval Latin songs attracted the attention of musicians. Two examples (Vinum bonum et suave, and Potatores exquisiti), in their medieval and renaissance manifestations, highlight the differences of approach to music in the two periods. Both are drinking songs but have associations with sacred repertoire; and seem to be connected to monastic culture; and the two seem to have migrated to disparate regions of Europe.

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