Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
FIG. 15-3 Adrian Willaert, in a woodcut that served as frontispiece to Musica nova (Venice, 1540), ...
The “post-Josquin” style at its most seamless and luxuriant can be sampled in the work of the Fleming Nicolas ...
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The texture might be compared with a finely wrought tapestry: a weave of melodic strands that are given ...
reciprocal fashion, by a rising fourth to the final, describing the modal tetrachord. The second phrase (beginnin ...
me has abandoned me”), first published in 1554, of which the beginning and end are given in Ex. 15-3. The te ...
Many if not most motet texts in this great age of motet writing were nonstandard and nonliturgical. Even ...
EX. 15-3B Jacobus Clemens, Qui consolabatur me recessit a me, mm. 78–end On the face of it, Clemens’s proce ...
That instability is confirmed (to put things a bit paradoxically) at the other end of the motet. The final cadenc ...
Needless to say, this homely domestic psalm is not an example of ars perfecta but a contrast or alter ...
cadences: pronounced and emphatic in the metrical psalm, artfully smoothed over in the Latin motet. Indee ...
FIG. 15-4 St. Mark’s Cathedral, Venice. And yet Willaert’s preeminence did depend at least in equal part on ...
EX. 15-5C Adrian Willaert, Benedicta es, coelorum regina, mm. 144–50 But this observation, even as it puts ...
occur in any of the others but not in Willaert, see m. 21 in Gombert’s In illo tempore, near the end of ...
Because he was so obviously and enthusiastically a perfecter of method, and because like many methodical types ...
great training center for musicians in the literate tradition. The other important Fleming whom Willaert t ...
itself. It, too, was probably a transcription of an unwritten virtuoso practice, and the whole book prob ...
is not the casual beholder (or ordinary “consumer”), but rather the initiated connoisseur of craft, which in p ...
EX. 15-7B Jacques Buus, Ricercare no. 4, mm. 98–110 ...
Yet the overall impression is one not of sections succeeding sections but rather the ultimate “leisurely flow o ...
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