your darling portrait”), of which the first section is shown in Ex. 9-21. The choice of genre was
significant: the grand strophic ballade had replaced the motet as the supreme genre for ars subtilior
composers. The incipit of Philippus’s ballad (both words and music) was later quoted in turn by Ciconia,
the migrant Fleming whom we met in chapter 8, and who may have been Philippus’s pupil. Thus did
composers seek to establish and maintain dynasties of prestige. Ex. 9-22 shows the quotation from En
remirant in Ciconia’s virelai Sus un fontayne (“Beneath a spring...”). The quotations from Machaut
come in the third strophe of Philippus’s text, not shown in the example.
EX. 9-21 Philippus de Caserta, En remirant (ballade)