# Who did it first: band name-drops own name in song

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**Created:** [January 19, 2023, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-it-first-band-name-drops-own-name-in-song/978458 "2023-01-19T15:45:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2023, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-did-it-first-band-name-drops-own-name-in-song/978458/101 "2023-01-27T21:01:39Z")

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I suppose we can’t count [Guillaume Dufay’s 1474 customized funeral mass,](https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/may/28/classicalmusicandopera.arts) which he didn’t actually sing himself (or even hear, as it turned out)?

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> But the most unusual clause in Dufay’s will was the provision of money for a group of musicians to sing Dufay’s own composition Ave Regina Coelorum over his body as he lay dying. The great man had composed this piece almost 10 years earlier, but presumably had this purpose in mind even then - for he customised the text to include a clause referring specifically to himself: “Miserere supplicanti Dufay sitque in conspectu tuo mors eius speciosa.” Or: “Pity your supplicant Dufay and may his death be lovely in your sight.” […]
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> Sadly for Dufay, his wish to have the motet performed over his dying body was not fulfilled. Another canon at Cambrai died just before him on the same day, so Dufay’s final hours were spent alone as arrangements for his colleague’s funeral were busily made. Ave Regina Coelorum was not performed until Dufay’s funeral.

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