As in the anonymous quodlibets in (TM6 ↣), these pieces by Antoine Busnois cleverly combine different popular tunes.
Another similarity to those anonymous quodlibets; Busnois’ pieces have courtly texts, normally in rondeau form, in the top part, and what are presumably popular melodies in at least two of the remaining parts.
Strictly speaking the term “quodlibet’’ should be used for works made of fragments of melodies, rather than of complete tunes. American musicologists have coined the term “combinative chanson’’, which is accurate and descriptive, but a little clumsy.
