Outposts
Faux-naïvetéChapter 10 “A Pleasant Place”: Music of the TrecentoItalian Music of the Fourteenth Century
Vulgar eloquence
Madrigal culture
A new discant style
The “wild bird” songs
Ballata culture
Landini
Late-century fusion
An important side issue: PeriodizationChapter 11 Island and MainlandMusic in the British Isles through the Early Fifteenth Century and Its Influence on the Continent
The first masterpiece?
Viking harmony
Insular fauna?
Pes motets and rondellus
The Worcester fragments
Nationalism?
“English descant”
The beginnings of “functional” harmony?
Old Hall and Roy Henry
Fortunes of war
Dunstable and the “contenance angloise”
Voluptuousness and how to acquire it
Fauxbourdon and faburden
Du Fay and BinchoisChapter 12 Emblems and DynastiesThe Cyclic Mass Ordinary Setting
The internationalism of the upper crust
The “Tinctoris generation”
The cyclic Mass
Cantus firmus as trope of glory