Revisiting the Music of Medieval France: From Gallican Chant to Dufay

ISBN-13: 9781409436812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 304 str.

Manuel Pedro Ferreira

Opis

Presents essays on different aspects of medieval music in France. This title offers an odd E-flat in two 16th-century antiphoners that leads to the identification of a Gregorian responsory as a Gallican version of a seventh-century Hispanic melody.

Recenzje

'... this is all readable, challenging material, hard to find otherwise.' Early Music Review

Spis treści

Contents: The lamentation of Asterix: conclusit vias meas inimicus; The Cluny Gradual: its notation and melodic character; Is it polyphony?; New light on St Bernard's chant reform: Guido of Eu and the earliest Cistercian choirbooks; Early Cistercian polyphony: a newly-discovered source; Mesure et temporalité: vers l'ars nova; L'identité di motet parisien; Compositional calculation in Philippe de Vitry; Dufay in analysis, or - who invented the triad?; Proportions in ancient and medieval music; Indexes.

O autorze

Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.