Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

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EX. 5-10 Verbum patris  humanatur   (twelfth-century    conductus   setting in  three   parts)

The strategic placement of dissonance (or imperfect consonance) immediately before perfect
consonance, and its “resolution” to the latter by contrary voice-leading, was henceforth regarded as the
essential “function” of discant harmony and the definer of musical “motion.” It became the primary signal

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