Antoine Busnoys - In Hydraulis | Hilliard Ensemble | Franco-Flemic Second Generation

Antoine Busnois (also Busnoys; c. 1430 – before 6 November 1492)

In hydraulis quondam Pythagora
Admirante melos, phthongitates
Malleorum, percussa aequora
Per ponderum inaequilitates
Adinvenit musae quidditates.
Epitritum ac emioliam,
Epogdoi duplam nam perducunt
Nam tessaron pente convenientiam
Nec non phthongum et pason adducunt,
Monocordi dum genus conducunt.
Hec Ockeghem cunctis qui precinis
Galliarum in Regis latria
Practiculum tue propaginis
Arma cernens quondam per atria
Burgundie ducis in patria.
Per me Busnois illustris comitis
De Chaurolais indignum musicum
Saluteris tuis pro meritis
Tamquam summum Cephas tropidicum
Vale versum instar Orpheicum.

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Once, when Pythagoras was marvelling at the melody in the water-organs,
at the pitches of the hammers striking the surfaces,
through the inequalities of the weights
he discovered the essences of the Muses:
the epitrite and the hemiolia,
for the epogdoic and the duple indeed lead,
for four and five bring concord,
and likewise they bring forth the pitch and the octave,
when the kind of the monochord is applied.

This Ockeghem, who in all preludes
of the king of the Gauls in his service
once saw in the halls
the arms of your lineage
in the land of the duke of Burgundy.

Through me, Busnois, unworthy musician
of the illustrious Count of Charolet,
may you be greeted for your merits
as the highest Cephas of harmony.
Farewell in a verse fashioned like that of Orpheus.

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