Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

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Modal rhythm, in short, now loses the patterning and governing properties that were its original reason for bei ...

CHAPTER 8 Business Math, Politics, and Paradise: The Ars Nova NOTATIONAL AND STYLISTIC CHANGE IN FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ...

translated into sound durations, whether for the sake of sheer intellectual or epicurean delight or as a ...

other direction, so to speak), three perfect longs could be grouped within a perfect maxima or longa triplex. W ...

To deal, briefly, with the speculative side (since it was that side that initially drove the engine ...

easy to overdraw. It is worth repeating that “meter,” to us, implies a pattern of accentuation (strong ...

colonies. In America, despite long pressure to convert to the decimal metric system, introduced as an “enlighte ...

FIG. 8-2 Ars Nova notation: the four signatures. BACKLASH Just as the technology-minded theorists of the “Ar ...

that “the art that uses perfect values more often is, therefore, more perfect,” and that “the art ...

favors she has granted him and proposes marriage—but this, too, is a trick; once married to Fortune Fauvel ...

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FIG. 8-3 Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Fonds Français 146 (Roman de Fauvel), fol. 41 v–42, showing most ...

chosen with care to reflect its liturgical dignity on the texted parts, although the fourteenth-century motet, e ...

has gone over both the triplum and the motetus and added the minim-stems that not only distinguish levels of m ...

crosscut the tenor’s double cursus, which begins right between the members of the middle pair (just after our ex ...

FIG. 8-4 Phillippe de Vitry, Tuba sacre/In arboris/VIRGO SUM (Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare, MS 115, fols. ...

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