<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">As a matter of fact I did not save the TI from a couple years back, due to the fact that I was not <I>receiving </I>TI a couple years back.<BR>
I noticed the majority of your examples were late period. The argument I read of contrafactum being a form of hommage came from <I>Songs of the Women Trouveres</I> (Yale University, 2001), which of course is earlier period, so it's possible that both are accurate.<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#0000ff" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SCRIPT" FACE="Lucida Handwriting" LANG="0">~Christiana de Montford</FONT></HTML>