Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

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