De tous biens (Japart, Jean)

First Publication	1504 in Canti C (No.60)
Genre Categories	Chansons; Songs; For 4 voices; For unaccompanied voices; Scores featuring the voice; For 4 instruments; Scores with open instrumentation; For 4 players; French language
Related Works	Based on De tous biens plaine by Ghizeghem

Sheet Music

Complete Score
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Complete Parts
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Editor	Allen Garvin
Publisher. Info.	Dallas: Hawthorne Early Music, 2016.
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Work Title	De tous biens
Alternative. Title
Composer	Japart, Jean
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No.	IJJ 1
Key	G Dorian mode
First Publication.	1504 in Canti C (No.60)
Language	French
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period	Renaissance
Piece Style	Renaissance
Instrumentation	4 voices (AATB)
Related Works	Based on De tous biens plaine by Ghizeghem

This piece offers a musical puzzle in the contra part: "Hic dantur antipodes", or "here is the antipodes". Antipodes refers to the polar opposites on a spherical globe--the clue here meaning it's read upside down. But the music is not turned upside down; rather it is mirrored around the middle line. The flat is the clue here which line it is mirrored around. The note above the middle line remains flat, which in this mode would use a C3 clef. Imagining a C3 clef, you invert the notes around it, so the opening note, notationally a G with the tenor clef, becomes a D. The second note remains a B-flat, the third a C, etc. Ligatures remain interpreted value wise as they are written, perhaps confusingly.
According to Grove Music, most of the contents of the Harmonice Musices Odhecaton are chansons. Though they do not necessarily have words, the words to the more popular ones would have been well known and would not necessarily have needed to be printed. Accordingly, this is tagged as a chanson for voices or instruments.