Sunday, October 30, 2011

Rompeltier by Jacob Obrecht (c. 1457 - 1505)

I found a couple of different versions of this song, all of which made use of instruments, and none of which were four part singing.  The song is secular, in a triple meter, and sounds like a good dance tune.  I searched around for a long time to try and find the text to this piece, but to no avail.  I found two different places that talked about many of the texts by Obrecht being lost, and that some of the songs we have are only fragments.  I am interested to find at least one example of text from one of his secular pieces.  If I am able to do so I will post that on this entry as well.  No luck finding any texts by Obrecht after searching on google, and the CD liner notes available on Naxos.  Oh, well.

1 comment:

  1. Very glad you've looked, and reported what you (didn't) find. Better luck next time!

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