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- 1 2 Gramophone Magazine (21 July). "Capilla Flamenca's Dirk Snellings has died". Retrieved 22 July 2015.
- ↑ Hommage à Dirk Snellings (obituary)
- ↑ See e.g. the publication of the Brussels Manuscript II 270 by Bruno Bouckaert and Eugeen Schreurs, Collection of Middle Dutch and Sacred Songs, Leuven, 2005. Several anonymous compositions from this manuscript were recorded by Capilla Flamenca on the CD Lumina in 2006.
- ↑ In most manuscripts of polyphony, the text is not written under the notes to which it should be sung. Although some treatises on the subject, such as De musica verbali libri duo by Gaspar Stoquerus (1570), subsist and can be studied, it is mostly through the practice and experience of singing together that the singers discover the correct setting of the text.
- ↑ Quite often, when a canon is to be sung, only the Dux (leading voice) is written[ citation needed ]. It is left to the singers to find out when and at what pitch the Comes (following voice) is to start singing[ citation needed ]. Sometimes a riddle written in the manuscript contains the key to the canon[ citation needed ]. See Katelijne Schiltz and Bonnie J. Blackburne (eds.), Canons and Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, and Reception History. Proceedings of the International Conference Leuven, 4–5 October 2005, Leuven, 2007.
- ↑ See Vera Scherr, Aufführungspraxis Vokalmusik Handbuch der lateinischen Aussprache, Bärenreiter, 1991.
- ↑ David Patrick Stearns, 'Piffaro melds music, Bosch', The Philadelphia Inquirer , February 13, 2006 (scan [ permanent dead link ] of the original article available on the Capilla Flamenca web site.
- ↑ Provincia di Arezzo
- ↑ cultuurweb.be Archived April 16, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
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