Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

(Marvins-Underground-K-12) #1

That much is à la clausula, all right, but the motetus and triplum texts are both little pastourelles
reminiscent of trouvère poetry, even down to the name of Robin the shepherd and the cliché beginning
(“the other day... ”) that goes all the way back to the troubadours:

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