Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

The most elaborate piece of this type is a translated sequence from the late thirteenth century, ...

Historians often call twinsong-type pieces like these “gymels,” appropriating from the English musical voca ...

INSULAR FAUNA? The examples given so far are enough to show that English polyphonic music pursued a somewhat ...

By the late thirteenth century, English and French culture were so thoroughly intermixed that their disentangl ...

Voice-exchange over a pes—shades of the Sumer canon! And all the more so if we reflect that a round, shorn ...

That, too, is possible. There is no need to decide. This much can be agreed upon: what is only ...

EX. 11-7B “Balaam” verse from sequence Epiphanium Domino ...

Inserted into a performance of the sequence, the motet text would be the kind of thing we might (ver ...

parent sources that most historians take it as a fact that pre-Reformation Britain produced more manuscr ...

EX. 11-8 Flos regalis (conductus/rondellus), mm. 87–117 ...

This assertion of a local style within a universal genre may suggest the beginnings of something comparable ...

(or, to put it in less anachronistic terms, their parallel-imperfect-consonance) style. Where Flos regalis ...

THE BEGINNINGS OF “FUNCTIONAL” HARMONY? As a marvelous summation of everything we have learned to identify ...

producing a double twinsong texture. That is already an English trademark, the first of many. The whole pi ...

the fourteenth century, when evidence of English musical activity becomes much more abundant, it is clea ...

mensural alignment, but with the pes moving at twice its original speed. What makes the piece not only int ...

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From the historian’s point of view the Old Hall manuscript is truly a feast after a famine. About a hu ...

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