Philosophy of History
Chapter 5 Polyphony in Practice And Theory
Early Polyphonic Performance Practices and the Twelfth-Century Blossoming of Polyphonic
Composition
Another renaissance
“Symphonia” and its modifications
Guido, John, and discant
Polyphony in aquitanian monastic centers
The Codex Calixtinus
Chapter 6 Notre Dame de Paris
Parisian Cathedral Music in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries and Its Makers
The cathedral-university complex
Piecing the evidence together
Measured music
Whys and wherefores
Organum cum alio
Theory or practice?
Conductus at Notre Dame
Chapter 7 Music for an Intellectual and Political Elite
The Thirteenth-Century Motet
A new class
The nascent motet
“Franconian” notation
Confluence of traditions
A new trobar clus?
Tenor “families”
Color and talea
The art of mélange
The “Petronian” motet
Chapter 8 Business Math, Politics, and Paradise: The Ars Nova
Notational and Stylistic Change in Fourteenth-Century France: Isorhythmic Motets from Machaut
to Du Fay
A “new art of music”?
Music from mathematics