Abstract
It is well known that the first line of the duplum of the Fauvel motet Garrii Gallus quotes the well-known first line of Ovid's Metamorphoses: In nova fer? animus mulatas dicere formas. It is only slightly less well known that the last couplet of another Fauvel motet, Tribum que / Quoniam /Merito, quotes an elegiac couplet from another work of Ovid, one of the letters he wrote in exile, Epistulae ex Ponto IV. 3. lines 35-6. The triplum ends with a hexameter couplet (found in Walther, Proverbia 22073). The longer essay of which this is a summary addresses the status of these quotations, identifies some significant features of musical construction, and demonstrates textual-musical reference from one motet to the other.
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