Fricassée (music)

Fricassée ( French ) is a name for a form of music made in the 16th century, in which, similar to the Quodlibet , a polyphonic , mostly four-part , vocal composition has different texts in the individual voices , which creates a joking effect.

literature

• Markus Bandur: Quodlibet. In: Concise dictionary of musical terminology . Vol. 5, ed. by Hans Heinrich Eggebrecht and Albrecht Riethmüller , editors Markus Bandur, Steiner, Stuttgart 1991, here p. 6 ( digitized version ).
• Maria Rika Maniates, Richard Freedman:  Fricassée. In: Grove Music Online (English; subscription required).
• Helena Mennie Shire, Kenneth Elliott: La Fricassée en Écosse et ses rapports avec les fêtes de la Renaissance. In: Jean Jacquot (ed.): Les Fêtes de la Renaissance. Journées Internationales d'Etudes sur les Fêtes de la Renaissance, Paris 1956, pp. 335-345.