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French group La Main Harmonique is named for the "Guidonian hand," known to generations of music history graduate students, which teaches solmization ...Show synopsisFrench group La Main Harmonique is named for the "Guidonian hand," known to generations of music history graduate students, which teaches solmization syllables by means of labeled finger joints. That suggests the basic orientation here, which is toward specialists; the booklet dutifully lists library sources but does not provide anything so helpful as translations of the 15th-century French texts (there are some almost completely black photos of the performers, though). It's nice, however, to have recordings of this secular chanson repertoire, which in the case of Johannes Ockeghem is not so well represented on recordings as his intellectually fearsome masses. With the chansons it's a different story, as the medieval conventions of courtly love began to give way to the more direct sentiments and the closer connection between words and music that would be heard in Josquin's music a generation later. The delicate performances of La Main Harmonique seem to capture the individual moods of each piece,...Hide synopsis
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