Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Putting it  into    practice

Representing    it

Backlash

Establishing    the prototype:  The Roman   de  Fauvel

Taking  a   closer  look

More    elaborate   patterning

Isorhythm

Music   about   music

Machaut:    The occult  and the sensuous

Musica  ficta

Cadences

Ciconia:    The motet   as  political   show

Du  Fay:    The motet   as  mystical    summa

A   final   word    from    Dante

Chapter 9   Machaut and His Progeny

Machaut’s Songs and Mass; Music at the Papal Court of Avignon; Ars Subtilior

Maintaining the art of  courtly song

Redefining  (and    re-refining)    a   genre

The top-down    style

Cantilena

Functionally    differentiated  counterpoint

The luxuriant   style

What    instrumentalists    did

Machaut’s   Mass    and its background

Avignon

Votive  formularies

Ci  commence    la  messe   de  nostre  dame

Kyrie

Gloria

Dismissal

Subtilitas

Canon

Ars Subtilior

Berry   and Foix