In 1986 the vocal ensemble The Western Wind asked me to compose a one-minute version of their namesake song, the 16th-century English O Western Wind, to be used as theme music for their National Public Radio program “The Western Wind On The Air.” From this grew the idea to write a group of settings of “older” folk songs. L’Homme Armé, the third in a set of five, was a well-known 15th-century French song that gained extended life as a cantus firmus used in masses by Dufay, Josquin and others. —Robert Dennis Translation: The man, the man, the armed man! The armed man is to be feared! Everywhere it has been proclaimed that everyone should arm himself with an iron coat of mail.
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