After a distinguished career of more than 35 years, Ignace Bossuyt retired as professor at the Musicology Department of the University of Leuven on October 1st 2007. As an internationally recognised leader in the field of later-16th-century music, Bossuyt consolidated the department’s reputation as a centre of excellence in renaissance music studies. Articles in this volume deal with music from the period on which the dedicatee focussed his own research. Subjects discussed include newly discovered music by Philippe de Monte and Heinrich Isaac, humour in the motets of Orlando di Lasso, the beginnings of music history, compositional procedures in renaissance music, and Tinctoris’s art of listening. A wide range of methodological perspectives is offered, including historiography, reception studies, source studies, music analysis, music theory, style studies, and aesthetics of music. The publication is both a Festschrift in which distinguished specialists honour an outstanding colleague, and a Liber Amicorum compiled for a dear friend.
CONTENTS
‘Una cosa riuscita’: Ignace Bossuyt’s Academic Career
Mark Delaere & Pieter Bergé
List of Publications by Ignace Bossuyt
Humor in the Motets of Orlando di Lasso
Peter Bergquist
A new source, and new compositions, for Philippe de Monte
Stanley Boorman
Heinrich Isaac and his Recently Discovered Missa Presulem Ephebeatum
David J. Burn
Josquin in the Sources of Spain: An Evaluation of two Unique Attributions
Willem Elders
Old Testament Motets for the War of Cyprus (1570-71)
Ian Fenlon
Caron and Florence: A New Ascription and the Copying of the Pixérécourt Chansonnier
Sean Gallagher
The Officium of the Recollectio Festorum beate Marie Virginis by Gilles Carlier and Guillaume Du Fay:
Its Celebration and Reform in Leuven
Barbara Haggh
‘Excellent For the Hand’: Writing on John Bull’s Keyboard Music in England
John Irving
Josquin, Willaert and Douleur me bat
Eric Jas
Gardano’s Mottetti Del Frutto of 1538-39 and the Promotion of a New Style
Mary S. Lewis
La Prottola Antica e la Caccia. Indizi di un recupero formale e stilistico nelle prima metà del Cinquecento
Francesco Luisi
Die Entstehung der musikalischen Geschichte. Historisierung und ästhetische Praxis am Beispiel Josquins
Laurenz Lütteken
Notations modales au seizième siècle
Nicolas Meeùs
Notes from an Erasable Tablet
John Milsom
Self-Citation and Self-Promotion: Zarlino and the Miserere Tradition
Katelijne Schiltz
Beati Omnes, Qui timent Dominum à 5. Order: Von den Schwierigkeiten, Orlando di Lassos Motetten zu edieren
Bernhold Schmid
Über ,Nationalstile’ in der Motette des 16. Jahrhunderts
Thomas Schmidt-Beste
An Unknown Organ Manuscript with Mainly Magnificat-Settings by Lassus (1626)
Eugeen Schreurs
La musique et l’éducation des jeunes filles. D’après La montaigne des pucelles
Den Maeghden-Bergh de Magdaleine Valéry (Leyde, 1599)
Henri Vanhulst
Johannes Tinctoris and the Art of Listening
Rob C. Wegman
Index of Names
By this point, the collection has brought us through an extended selection of approaches found in early music studies past and present. Much as in the wide-ranging writings of Bossuyt himself, virtually every reader in the field will find at least some familiar point of contact. Under the book's placid surface- the traditional university press production with an attractive illuminated manuscript image on the dust jacket, the historical bent of the contents list, the plates of sources and scores-lie histories and analyses, but also innovative interpretations and inroads into methodological shifts. The contented early music aficionado will derive pleasure from a rich and colorful collection of writings; the self-reflective historiographer will find challenges.
Theodor Dumitrescu, Tijdschrift voor Muziektheorie/Dutch Journal of Music Theory 14/2 (2009)
The self-effacing title of this Festschrift belies the great wealth of scholarship to which it bears witness. It pays fitting tribute to a scholar whose work on sixteenth-century music - on Adrian Willaert, Alexander Utendal and Orlando di Lasso, through editorial, analytical and historical studies - has been prolific and far-reaching.
The variety of approaches taken in Bossuyt's own work are reflected in the diversity of offerings here.
Edward Wickham, St Catharine's College, Cambridge, FONTES AR TIS MUSICAE 57/2
Frequently Asked Questions
What is "Recevez ce mien petit labeur" about?
After a distinguished career of more than 35 years, Ignace Bossuyt retired as professor at the Musicology Department of the University of Leuven on October 1st 2007. As an internationally recognised leader in the field of later-16th-century music, Bossuyt consolidated the department’s reputation as a centre of excellence in renaissance music studies. Articles in this volume deal with music from the period on which the dedicatee focussed his own research. Subjects discussed include newly discovered music by Philippe de Monte and Heinrich Isaac, humour in the motets of Orlando di Lasso, the beginnings of music history, compositional procedures in renaissance music, and Tinctoris’s art of listening. A wide range of methodological perspectives is offered, including historiography, reception studies, source studies, music analysis, music theory, style studies, and aesthetics of music. The publication is both a Festschrift in which distinguished specialists honour an outstanding colleague, and a Liber Amicorum compiled for a dear friend.
Who edited "Recevez ce mien petit labeur"?
"Recevez ce mien petit labeur" was edited by Mark Delaere and Pieter Bergé.
Mark Delaere is emeritus gewoon hoogleraar Musicologie aan de KU Leuven. Hij is oprichter van het Festival 20-21 en van het centrum voor nieuwe muziek MATRIX. De muziek van de Weense School – Arnold Schönberg, Alban Berg, Anton Webern – ligt hem nauw aan het hart. In 2020 stelde hij 'Een kleine muziekgeschiedenis van hier en nu' samen, een toegankelijk boek over de Westerse klassieke muziek sinds 1950.
Mark Delaere is professor emeritus of Musicology at KU Leuven. His research covers mainly music from the 20th and 21st centuries, with a special focus on the interaction of analysis, history, theory and aesthetics of music.
Pieter Bergé is hoogleraar Musicologie aan de KU Leuven en artistiek directeur van Festival 20.21 Leuven. Zijn boeken, zowel wetenschappelijke als populariserende, werden herhaaldelijk bekroond.
Pieter Bergé is Professor of Music Analysis, History and Theory (1750-1900) at the KU Leuven. His main research topics are Arnold Schoenberg, German opera during the Weimar Republic, Formenlehre, instrumental music from 1770-1830, and 'analysis-and-performance'-issues.
What is the Table of Contents for "Recevez ce mien petit labeur"?
CONTENTS
'Una cosa riuscita': Ignace Bossuyt's Academic Career
Mark Delaere & Pieter Bergé
List of Publications by Ignace Bossuyt
Humor in the Motets of Orlando di Lasso
Peter Bergquist
A new source, and new compositions, for Philippe de Monte
Stanley Boorman
Heinrich Isaac and his Recently Discovered Missa Presulem Ephebeatum
David J. Burn
Josquin in the Sources of Spain: An Evaluation of two Unique Attributions
Willem Elders
Old Testament Motets for the War of Cyprus (1570-71)
Ian Fenlon
Caron and Florence: A New Ascription and the Copying of the Pixérécourt Chansonnier
Sean Gallagher
The Officium of the Recollectio Festorum beate Marie Virginis by Gilles Carlier and Guillaume Du Fay:
Its Celebration and Reform in Leuven
Barbara Haggh
'Excellent For the Hand': Writing on John Bull's Keyboard Music in England
John Irving
Josquin, Willaert and Douleur me bat
Eric Jas
Gardano's Mottetti Del Frutto of 1538-39 and the Promotion of a New Style
Mary S. Lewis
La Prottola Antica e la Caccia. Indizi di un recupero formale e stilistico nelle prima metà del Cinquecento
Francesco Luisi
Die Entstehung der musikalischen Geschichte. Historisierung und ästhetische Praxis am Beispiel Josquins
Laurenz Lütteken
Notations modales au seizième siècle
Nicolas Meeùs
Notes from an Erasable Tablet
John Milsom
Self-Citation and Self-Promotion: Zarlino and the Miserere Tradition
Katelijne Schiltz
Beati Omnes, Qui timent Dominum à 5. Order: Von den Schwierigkeiten, Orlando di Lassos Motetten zu edieren
Bernhold Schmid
Über ,Nationalstile' in der Motette des 16. Jahrhunderts
Thomas Schmidt-Beste
An Unknown Organ Manuscript with Mainly Magnificat-Settings by Lassus (1626)
Eugeen Schreurs
La musique et l'éducation des jeunes filles. D'après La montaigne des pucelles
Den Maeghden-Bergh de Magdaleine Valéry (Leyde, 1599)
Henri Vanhulst
Johannes Tinctoris and the Art of Listening
Rob C. Wegman
Index of Names
What is the DOI for "Recevez ce mien petit labeur"?
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Recevez ce mien petit labeur" is 10.11116/9789461660169.
Related titles
The Book of Requiems, 1815–1900
John Koslovsky (Editor), Steven Vande Moortele (Editor),
November 2026
Music Theory and Analysis Volume 12 Issue 1, 2025 (Journal Subscription)
John Koslovsky (Editor), Markus Neuwirth (Editor), Derek Remeš (Editor),
May 2025
Musiceren is topsport
Bert De Cuyper (Author), Griet Baert (Author), Linde Verjans (Author),
December 2021
Theory into practice
Nicholas Cook (Author), Peter Johnson (Author), Hans Zender (Author),
October 2021
