Medieval France. An Encyclopedia

Important developments in Italian theory occurred in the early 11th century. The Dialogus de musica, formerly attributed to Odo ...

The precedent established by Jerome was followed and even expanded by Jacques de Liège, a canon from Liège active in Paris durin ...

Philippe de Vitry sets forth the basic principles of rhythmic notation and practice that persisted in western music until the 20 ...

Bower, Calvin M. “The Role of Boethius’ De Institutione Musica in the Speculative Tradition of Western Musical Thought.” In Boet ...

theoretical foundations for voice leading in simple (two-voice) and compound (three- and four-voice) organum. During the 10th an ...

they strove to fill the needs of the ever-changing society, and so we can speak only generally of medieval musical instruments. ...

Machaut paints a vivid picture of all the instruments playing together, but such an event is unlikely. It is certain that all of ...

century a fairly standard dance ensemble was made up of two or three shawms with a slide trumpet (the slide trumpet was replaced ...

repertory of the lower classes. Aristocrats did play these instruments, and their servant entertainers, the minstrels and jongle ...

neumes varied considerably from region to region, while maintaining a basic familial relationship). Neumes of from one to three ...

There are three major points of dispute about the early history of neumatic notation. The first involves the date of the first c ...

By the mid-13th century, these three basic notational shapes for single notes acquired temporal significance, the virga becoming ...

By the late 14th century, symbols and note shapes multiplied, allowing the notation of rhythmic complexities to a point not agai ...

the above styles were inserted into choral performances of otherwise mono-phonic chant, taking the place of those lines assigned ...

Scattered references are found to the use of instruments, usually trumpets, in the liturgy, but these are always on special occa ...

——. Voices and Instruments of the Middle Ages. London: Dent, 1987. MYSTERY PLAYS . During the 15th and 16th centuries, the Frenc ...

individual for “mystical experience,” as well as with visions, voices, and other extraordinary phenomena that occur as persons f ...

As late antiquity gave way to the Middle Ages, the spiritual traditions sketched above were preserved, but little applied or dev ...

contemporaries and explored such important themes as the role of symbols, the nature of anagogical ascent, and the “divine darkn ...

In the 12th century, other movements for monastic and spiritual reform, such as the Carthusians and Premon-stratensians, also de ...