Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

EX. 10-7 Faenza version of Non avràma’pietà ...

Certain features of the florid part in this setting have struck some commentators as unidiomatic for the ...

there is no indication that the “first part” is the one that actually ends the piece. LATE-CENTURY FUSIO ...

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But who is this “rooster”? In Italian, the word is gallo. Might Landini’s gallo not be a stand-in for ...

Carmen,” a name we enclose in quotes because it is so obviously a Latin pseudonym (“John Song”) for a Pa ...

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AN IMPORTANT SIDE ISSUE: PERIODIZATION Was there a musical “Renaissance”? Was this it? To ask such questions, ...

boundaries of the period in question. They are then liable to take on the appearance of “progressive” traits ...

art historians the first Renaissance painter, by long-established convention, is Giotto (Giotto di Bondone, ca. 126 ...

advocates ever since the trecento repertory was rediscovered by musicologists around the beginning of the t ...

We may as well admit that the term serves no purpose for music history except to keep music in an artif ...

CHAPTER 11 Island and Mainland MUSIC IN THE BRITISH ISLES THROUGH THE EARLY FIFTEENTH CENTURY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON ...

FIG. 11-1 Sumer is icumen in (London, British Library, MS Harley 978). So this piece is a round—a canon ...

showing the successive combinations of voices that occur when four “companions” sing the round as presc ...

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EX. 11-2 Benjamin Britten, A Ceremony of Carols, opening of Wolcum yole! That basic harmonic—yes, chorda ...

Giraldus’s account was set down in 1198, about half a century before the Reading Rota was set down. So is th ...

FIG. 11-2 “Hymn to St. Magnus” (Nobilis, humilis) as it appears in its source, Uppsala (Sweden), Universitets ...