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Tallis Scholars - Peter Phillips, conductor (released on Gimell Records)

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The Missa L’ami Baudichon was likely one of Josquin's first masses. The vulgarity of the original song makes it an unusual starting-point for a sacred work, yet despite this it survives in one of the Vatican choirbooks, where presumably it was sung as part of the liturgy. In the only source of the song to give the text, now in Verona, the rude word is simply omitted, though there is no doubt what it should be, since the song itself was often mentioned in contemporary poems about dance and the theatre. Its popularity may have stemmed from the extraordinary popularity of the name ‘Baudichon’, which is recorded in over eighty different spellings throughout Europe. Of pre-seventh-century French origin, it is derived from the word ‘baud’, meaning ‘joyful’, and was probably given as a nickname for a ‘lusty and swaggering youth’—fitting the context here rather well.

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