Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

contrary motion at cadences now begins to spread to other parts of the setting, so that the older conc ...

specifically and technically to medieval polyphony. POLYPHONY IN AQUITANIAN MONASTIC CENTERS By the time the w ...

FIG. 5-2 Melismatic organum on the versus Jubilemus, exultemus from one of the twelfth-century “St. Martial” ...

there is the further problem of guessing exactly which notes of the tenor coincide with which notes of ...

The texture here is “neume-against-neume” rather than note-against-note. (The slurs in the example show how ...

Even though it uses a texture that was described by earlier writers such as Guido and John, while the ...

memory aids—which is why we use the word “catchy” to describe them. They bear witness to the process (and ...

reliable a guide to the actual counterpoint as the theoretical principles on which all writers agree. (Particul ...

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FIG. 5-3 Cunctipotens genitor, as set melismatically in the Codex Calixtinus, a late twelfth-century French ...

FIG. 5-4 The conductus Congaudeant catholici as it appears in the Codex Calixtinus (fol. 214, the bottom half ...

EX. 5-10 Verbum patris humanatur (twelfth-century conductus setting in three parts) The strategic placement of d ...

of “closure,” or phrase-ending in polyphonic music, the necessary determiner of cadences, and eventually the prima ...

CHAPTER 6 Notre Dame de Paris PARISIAN CATHEDRAL MUSIC IN THE TWELFTH AND THIRTEENTH CENTURIES AND ITS MAK ...

FIG. 6-1 Interior of the cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. Its instructional and administrative staff was forme ...

The musical documents, three service books compiled in Paris in the mid-tolate thirteenth century and one compiled ...

PIECING THE EVIDENCE TOGETHER Those who copied and sang these works for generations did not, however, know ...

Then comes a list of Perotin’s original works, beginning with the real newsmakers, the quadrupla, organ ...

efforts have been made to identify him with Anonymus IV’s Perotin, but the facts and the chronology ...

effect “tum-ta-tum-ta-tum-ta-tum-ta-tum-ta-tum...,” and so on. This was the basic modus (or “rhythmic mode,” or “w ...