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The 17 pages that link to Cantus firmus, each with the reason it gives.

• Renaissance musicRelated: Composers built masses around chant or other borrowed melodies.

• MotetRelated: Medieval motets often built upper parts around a sustained borrowed melody.

• Parody massCompared with: Unlike a cantus-firmus mass, a parody mass draws on multiple elements rather than one sustained melody.

• Josquin des PrezRelated: Josquin built Mass movements around borrowed melodies, sometimes placing them in a sustained tenor line.

• Mass (music)Related: Composers built some Masses around a recurring borrowed melody.

• Musical quotationBroader topic: It is an early, systematic way composers placed inherited music inside new works.

• Franco-Flemish SchoolRelated: Composers often anchored elaborate masses to a borrowed or traditional melody.

• Renaissance polyphonyRelated: Composers often built new vocal lines around a borrowed melody.

• Burgundian SchoolRelated: Burgundian composers used inherited melodies to organize large sacred works.

• Johannes OckeghemRelated: Several of Ockeghem’s masses build their movements around borrowed melodies.

• Gilles BinchoisRelated: The technique provides context for some sacred works associated with his era.

• Guillaume DufayRelated: Dufay often built large sacred works around borrowed, sustained melodies.

• Messe de Nostre DameRelated: A chant melody anchors the lower voice in portions of the cycle.

• Missa Papae MarcelliCompared with: Unlike Masses organized around a sustained borrowed tune, this work is not built on a single cantus firmus.

• Arvo PärtRelated: Pärt’s work with inherited melodic material connects his method to older sacred practice.

• Guillaume Du FayRelated: Du Fay built several large-scale sacred works around borrowed melodies.

• John DunstapleRelated: Dunstaple’s sacred polyphony often builds around borrowed chant melodies.