Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

EX. 11-13 Leonel Power, Gloria, mm. 1–15 ...

But which Henry? The three kings of the house of Lancaster—the son, grandson, and great-grandson of John o ...

FORTUNES OF WAR Here is Roy Henry again (assuming he is Henry V) in Ex. 11-15, this time doing what ...

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Ex. 11-15 is a carol, the English version of the carole, the old French dance-song with refrain (here called the “b ...

Deo gratias Anglia (Ex. 11-15), the carol in honor of Henry V, celebrates not a festival but a great event— ...

One of these estates passed after Bedford’s death to a man named John Dunstable, who is named in the deed ...

a single piece of music more than forty years old that is “regarded by the learned as worth hearing, ...

syncopes and its little rashes of polyrhythm. The tonality of the whole is unabashedly disunified in the old Fren ...

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EX. 11-18 John Dunstable, Salve scema/Salve salus, mm. 145–80 ...

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By contrast, Tapissier’s texture bristles with “unprepared” and “unresolved” dissonance. The last six measures ...

Solomon, for which a long tradition of allegorical interpretation existed, now came into their own as v ...

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This, it is worth noting parenthetically, is only the first of many times that we will see music ...

consonances, they had always been described by theorists as an interval normally avoided. Here, bizarr ...

EX. 11-20C Guillaume Du Fay, Vos qui secuti estis me (Communion from Missa Sancti Jacobi), first phrase ...

carried the original chant (transposed up an octave), as if reverting to the vox principalis/vos organalis textur ...