Le ray au soleyl, Johannes Ciconia, sung by Quire Cleveland, dir. Ross W. Duffin, at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Akron OH, on Oct. 29, 2017.
Johannes Ciconia is generally regarded as the first composer of Franco-Flemish origin to make his way to Italy in the late Middle Ages. He paved the way for a host of other Northern singers and composers attracted to the brilliant courts of Italy during the course of the Renaissance, including DuFay, Josquin, Willaert, Rore, and Lassus, to name but a few. Ciconia’s Le ray au soleyl is a mensuration canon, meaning a canon that depends on the fact that notes had different durations in different meters, just as in modern notation a whole rest can have different values depending on the meter. The first voice you will hear is joined by another, one octave lower and moving at one-third of the speed, then by a third voice moving in the same range as the first, but with four notes for every three of the first. It is a fascinating piece and a remarkable conception that was brought to its zenith by Ockeghem, with his Missa Prolationum.
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