Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Aucun/Lonc tans/ANNUN(TIANTES) gives us, in its motetus and triplum, a long and lingering last look at
the loftiest class of trouvère chanson, and its tenor is also of a traditional type, borrowed from a Notre
Dame organum. Fig. 7-10 shows its first page; Ex. 7-10 is a transcription of the same portion. The texture
and prosody here are comparable to those in Ex. 7-8 (El mois de mai/De se debent bigami/KYRIE): the
triplum has syllabically texted semibreves, the motetus has semibreves but carries syllables only on longs
and breves or their equivalents, and the tenor moves in perfect longs throughout. And yet the sound and
style of the piece are very novel indeed, owing to the flexibility with which the triplum part subdivides
the basic beat (i.e., the tempus or breve unit).