Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

the “discanter” would double it at the upper fourth. A didactic example of faburden that happened to be w ...

Really skillful British extemporizers, going all the way back to the time of Giraldus Cambrensis, could come ...

Compared to this, fauxbourdon (to say nothing of simple faburden) might seem like child’s play. But the poin ...

This is definitely an “art” setting, if a relatively unshowy one, and literate through and through, worl ...

notes in transcription) implies a grouping of three breves into perfect longs. That sort of supple, “nat ...

EX. 11-24B Ave maris stella with “contratenor sine faulx bourdon” ...

As an example of the sort of contemporary courtly chanson Du Fay’s hymn setting parodies, let us consider o ...

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The French version, Craindre vous vueil (“To fear you is my wish”), is in the standard rondeau cinquain ...

cadence by moving from imperfect consonance to perfect consonance (here, from third to unison) in contrary m ...

By the time he set it, Christine’s poem was already an old and famous one, composed on the death of her husba ...

FIG. 11-7 Christine de Pisane at her writing desk (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431, fol. 4). ...

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Even “sweetness” comes in many varieties. To us it may connote a highly nuanced sort of tone production sui ...

CHAPTER 12 Emblems and Dynasties THE CYCLIC MASS ORDINARY SETTING THE INTERNATIONALISM OF THE UPPER CRUST Joh ...

FIG. 12-1 Tinctoris at his writing desk, a portrait (possibly from life) by the Neapolitan artist Cris ...

FIG. 12-2 Ockeghem and his choir, depicted ca. 1523 in a manuscript from Rouen (Paris, Bibliothèque ...

FIG. 12-3 Autograph copy of Busnoys’s self-referential motet Anthoni usque limina (Brussels, Bibliothèque ...

(as in “it’s lonely at the top”). The tenor of Ockeghem’s motet is based on a six-note pes (AN-THO-NI- US ...