L'homme armé was a well-known Burgundian melody from the 15th and 16th centuries. It was commonly used as a cantus firmus in many masses by Dufay, Josquin, and Ockeghem, among others. I decided to continue this tradition and use the melody in a new context. The tune is augmented, and even the shortest time values last in their new form for around ten seconds. In this way, the augmented melody forms a kind of skeleton or a structural basis for the whole work. I have also studied the form and the interval structure of the original medieval tune and then applied these same features to this new work for saxophone and percussion. TR, 2003