Guillaume Crétin et la Déploration sur le trépas de Jean Ockeghem : les choeurs, les coeurs et la poésie
(2014) Médiévales — Vol. 66, p. 121-139 (2014)
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Radomme, Thibaut 
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- (en) This article offers a study of the poem Déploration sur le trépas de Jean Ockeghem, written by Guillaume Crétin at the extreme end of the fifteenth century, in a double perspective : the representation of choruses’harmony and hearts’disharmony on one hand, and the problematisation of the topos of author’s humility on the other hand. After a brief introduction, in which I give a contextual background about the concepts of harmony and disharmony as well as a general overview of the poem, the first part of the article deals with the first perspective of reading : if choruses’harmony seems at first sight to contrast with hearts’disharmony, borders are in fact blurred and choruses are contaminated by the disorder of feelings, which results in the rejection of happiness that characterizes funeral singing. In the second part of the article, I want to examine the position of inferiority in which Guillaume Crétin puts himself as an author. Indeed, whilst he claims to be unable to write the poem that he has been asked to compose and calls for the help of his illustrious predecessors and famous contemporaries, he recognizes the superiority of music over poetry. However, the author seems to deceive the expectations of the reader and, through an ingenious mise en abyme and by exploiting the performative dimension of the poem, to crown himself as the prince of the poets.
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Radomme, T. (2014). Guillaume Crétin et la Déploration sur le trépas de Jean Ockeghem : les choeurs, les coeurs et la poésie. Médiévales, 66, 121-139. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/193953 (Original work published 2014)