Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

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In every talea, then, six breves’ worth of musical time is organized by perfect longs (that is, in “perfect ...

The playful complexity of this tenor—an arbitrary (that is, “rational”) talea that mixes mensurations and ...

with the works of Vitry that we have been examining. It is found in a rotulus, a scroll-manuscript ...

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Here are the triplum and motetus texts, abridged to eliminate a lengthy honor-roll of famous musicians: Triplum: ...

devout genre that stood closest to the tradition of fine amours was the antiphon to the Blessed Virgin Mary, ...

parts were conjointly laid out like a foundation to govern the proportions of the whole. In extremely formal ...

MUSICA FICTA These terms should not be taken too literally. Indeed, Philippe de Vitry himself, as reported ...

contents were fully presentable to the senses and in that respect altogether real. And necessary, as Philippe ...

So often were musica ficta adjustments taken for granted—so often, in other words, were they left to o ...

What gave it that stabilizing and articulating (form-defining) power had only partly to do with the doub ...

of the arts. Music received special attention at this time (writes Julie Cumming, another motet historia ...

EX. 8-7B Doctorum principem super ethera/Melodia suavissima cantemus, mm. 45–58 ...

EX. 8-7C Doctorum principem super ethera/Melodia suavissima cantemus, mm. 89–100 The texts are laid out in three ...

In fact, the tenor/contratenor pair is written out only once, with a “canon” or special direction that spe ...

Ciconia’s patron, had shone. By 1420, when he was about 23, Du Fay was employed by the Pesaro branch of the n ...

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EX. 8-9 Proportional numbers in Nuper rosarum flores represented as pitch intervals Moreover, the complex of durati ...

dimensions of Solomon’s temple (60:40:20:30 cubits:: 6:4:2:3 minims to a breve); and the length and layout of ...