Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Christmas season. Fig. 6-3a reproduces the original chant from the Liber usualis, until 1963 the offi ...

FIG. 6-3B Viderunt omnes set as organum duplum, perhaps by Leoninus, as the first item in Magnus liber de ...

course. Guides to organum emphasize that notes forming consonances with the tenor were or could be sung l ...

discant section is clearly being “modeled” on that of the chant melody. And yet the most conspicuous component ...

EX. 6-3B “Do-” clausulae transcribed from W 2 , f. 63–63’, in 6/8 meter ...

EX. 6-3C “Do-” clausulae transcribed from Flo, f. 150 ’(with double cursus) EX. 6-3D “Do-” clausulae tran ...

There are large sections devoted to spare parts like these, sometimes called “substitute clausulas” or “ersa ...

Dame composers, whoever they were, finally managed to “solve” a longstanding “problem,” namely that of notatin ...

counterpart to verse. In this form it evidently went from mouth to mouth for a generation or two befo ...

(organum quadruplum), attributed to Perotin in Anonymus IV and requested by Bishop Eudes de Sully for perf ...

FIG. 6-4 Opening of Viderunt omnes, set as organum quadruplum by Perotinus for performance in 1198 (Flo, fols ...

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To see textural integration, control, and planning from another perspective, compare the triplum in the firs ...

sacre gestas.) A dactylic foot consists of a long and two shorts. In contrast to the trochee (LB), whi ...

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EX. 6-5B Alleluia Nativitas, mm. 72–104 ...

EX. 6-5C Alleluia Nativitas, mm. 168–89 ...

But while this remarkable run ends the composition, very narrowly defined, it does not end the Alleluia ...

university music curriculum to supplement the venerable treatise of Boethius. (The other one was called De p ...

series of ternariae followed by a nota simplex.) Garlandia’s sixth mode, too, is more or less notion ...