Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

There was another way in which the conductus was an exceptional genre. It was the only type of polyphonic compo ...

its due, Ex. 6-6b shows another hypothetical transcription cast in fifth mode up to the cauda. EX. 6-6A ...

One cannot solve the rhythmic riddle this piece poses on the basis of the notation itself, because the nota ...

EX. 6-7 Final cauda from Dic, Christi veritas (text by Philip the Chancellor), transcribed from Flo, f. ...

FIG. 6-7A Last line of Dic, Christi veritas, beginning at bottom left and continuing at top right; ...

FIG. 6-7B Veste nuptiali (monophonic conductus), beginning with the ornamental V; from Flo, f. 450 v. Whate ...

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CHAPTER 7 Music for an Intellectual and Political Elite THE THIRTEENTH-CENTURY MOTET A NEW CLASS The rise of ...

description of how various types of music ought to be used. All the genres of music that we have encountered ...

notation, from the Notre Dame manuscript W 2 . Fig. 7-2 bshows the duplum from the same clausula in p ...

of the Virgin’s birth and the miracle of the actual “virgin birth,” that is, her son’s. FIG. 7-2A Ex semine claus ...

This triplum text, which begins and ends with the same verbal allusions as the motetus, was explicitly f ...

“FRANCONIAN” NOTATION As one can see at a glance, the manuscript from which Fig. 7-3 has been reproduced use ...

Like the melismatic notation that was developed to specify the rhythms of Notre Dame organum, the syllabic ...

music, so this distributional layout came to be called “choirbook style.” The Bamberg Codex is one of the earl ...

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And that is why the tenor in Fig. 7-3 is notated in notae simplices (longs and duplex longs, now called maxim ...

FIG. 7-4 French motet, Se j’ai ame/EX SEMINE (W 2 , fols. 136–136 v). The triplum and motetus, sung to the ...

of the cathedral nobility.”^6 If that seems a bit too schematic, since it casts the music, rather than ...

EX. 7-3 Paris, BN 844 (“Manuscrit du Roi”), interpolation no. 8, transcribed by Judith Peraino Stanzas inserted with ...