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Article: The Motet in the Age of Du Fay.(Review)
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- December 1, 2000
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Prior to the appearance of the monograph under review, the study that would probably have best filled its purpose was Wolfgang Stephan's Die Burgundisch-Niederlandische Motette zur Zeit Ockeghems (Kassel: Barenreiter, 1937), the date of which indicates how great the need had become for a reevaluation of the issues. Although Reinhard Strohm, Margaret Bent, David Fallows, and other scholars have been intensively occupied with the late-medieval motet and related topics for quite a few years now, many diverse threads have remained to be pulled together. It is therefore propitious that Julie E. Cumming chose to expand her doctoral dissertation (Concord out of Discord: ...