Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

The result is what is given in the transcription. It is the sort of thing Machaut would have called a re ...

elbows-jabbed-in-ribs rather than in cadences.) Such songs just go round and round—whence their name, of ...

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And not only the form but the sense as well, which it symbolizes on an allegorical plane transcending the “ma ...

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ARS SUBTILIOR The subtilitas with which Machaut expressed his implicitly aristocratic outlook on art and culture to ...

Most of the book concerns what Deschamps called musique naturele or “natural music,” meaning poetic vers ...

your darling portrait”), of which the first section is shown in Ex. 9-21. The choice of genre was significant: ...

The other way in which composers established prestige, of course, was through the sheer virtuosity of their compo ...

The latter were of four main types. There are lengthy passages in syncopation initiated by innocent- lookin ...

FIG. 9-5 Ars subtilior. Philippus de Caserta’s ballade En remirant, as notated in Modena, Biblioteca Estense, ...

belonged to Le Grand Condé, the great seventeenth-century general, is now kept at the Musée Condé in Chant ...

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OUTPOSTS As unpredictable as the final of Fumeux fume was the location of the other main center of ars sub ...

of them in musically linked pairs that (unlike such pairs in Western European sources) are entered cons ...

The reduced circumstances of present-day Poland—to say nothing of the periods of “partition” in the eighteenth and nine ...

new styles. Ties between the Polish court and the papacy—and during the Schism, with Rome—were particularly strong ...

structure it retained. The virelai was always the humblest, descending from the pastorela, later the chanson bala ...

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