Does anyone recognise this chant?
  • Mathrafal
    Posts: 8
    Hello folkets,

    I am sending out a Hail Mary here. Louis Couperin (1626–1661) wrote a fugue on precisely the same theme as his slightly older colleage, Jean-Henry D'Anglebert. In D'Anglebert's publication of five fugues, which we believe were on a plainsong melody. Does anyone recognise the chant, by any chance. The background is that Couperin was organist at Saint-Gervais, Paris, after 1653, though I find nothing in the usual antiphoners and graduals of that period.

    I hope someone might know.

    Cheers!

    Jon
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  • RoborgelmeisterRoborgelmeister
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    The theme is Kyrie Cunctipotens.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Mathrafal
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    I was looking at D'Anglebert this Fall and, thinking it would make a nice program with some of Die Kunst, thought of adding Louis Couperin's phrygian fugues as well as Couperin the Tall's Cunctipotens fugue. I should have looked further! Why would one assume the subject was plainsong, though?
  • Mathrafal
    Posts: 8
    Surely it would be in Tone I if it was from the Kyrie Cunctipotens genitor Deus?
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