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St. Peter's Basilica, Rome
Imagine liturgical texts sung to the melody of "Hips Don't Lie," and you'll have a modern representation of the 15th-century Catholic mass. We hear an example tonight, in Guillaume Dufay's famous mass modeled after his popular love ballad, "Se la face ay pale."
Se la face ay pale
While many early music composers made their living through the church, they found fame with their secular songs. A common practice was to recycle these popular tunes in their sacred output; if the public didn't understand liturgical Latin, they could enjoy the familiar melodies (and it certainly didn't hurt church ...
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