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...Le Monde that: ‘France possesses in Jeanne Leleu its most talented female composer’ (cited in Hamer, 2018, p. 83). Although not often performed today, Leleu was a highly regarded composer during the earlier twentieth century. She won France’s famous composition competition, the Prix de Rome in 1923, pursued a successful career as both a composer and a pianist, and...

...sang really wanted to set their music down in precise ways. And when they had several voices singing different things and they wanted to get the rhythmic integration of those voices, they needed a much more precise way of notating rhythm. And we have here examples of note shapes and groups of notes grouped into what we call ligatures-- which is, in its own way, a kind of...

...les regretz and Tous nobles cuers), set here by La Rue, were written to console the young Margaret following her dismissal from the French court in 1493 – she had been resident there since 1483 during her betrothal to Charles VIII of France, but he renounced the engagement and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany. The theme of regret reappears throughout the...