The examination of early two-voice motets reveals the prominence of the seven- (or eight-) syllable line in the poems. When declaimed in the usual manner, i.e. syllabically, in either the first or second rhythmic mode, this verse conforms to a time frame of two double Longs (or two modern measures in % meter). The different tenor patterns which are combined with these upper voices conform to the same time frame, producing a norm in which the two voices coincide at regular intervals. Departures from this norm produce overlapping of the two voices in the interests of variety. Of most use in explaining this phenomenon, however, are, not the 13th-century treatises on music, but rather those which deal with the new "rhythmic" poetry of the time....
In addressing questions of compositional process, scholars of medieval polyphony have relatively lit...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung ove...
This study focuses primarily on nine polyphonic ars nova motets contained within the early fourteent...
The many different versions in which motets were notated in various manuscripts from the 13th centur...
Interactions between polyphonic motets and monophonic trouvère song in the long thirteenth century h...
Despite frequent attempts to explain the emergence of a coherent type of polyphonic song in the earl...
While interest in the poetic-musical dimension of the isorhythmic motet has renewed analytical appro...
The outlines of isorhythmic motet composition in fourteenth-century France are well known today: the...
Nowadays, key features of fourteenth-century isorhythmic motet composition, especially in France, ar...
International audienceThis article investigates a corpus of sixteen thirteenth-century motets whose ...
This thesis examines the ways musical material are borrowed and re-used in early thirteenth century ...
This article investigates the relationship between textual accent and mensural rhythm in a sample of...
The present article seeks to further recent discussion of the diversity of the motet in the long thi...
PhDMusicUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umic...
Parmi les différents genres polyphoniques rencontrés en France à la fin du Moyen Âge, le motet isory...
In addressing questions of compositional process, scholars of medieval polyphony have relatively lit...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung ove...
This study focuses primarily on nine polyphonic ars nova motets contained within the early fourteent...
The many different versions in which motets were notated in various manuscripts from the 13th centur...
Interactions between polyphonic motets and monophonic trouvère song in the long thirteenth century h...
Despite frequent attempts to explain the emergence of a coherent type of polyphonic song in the earl...
While interest in the poetic-musical dimension of the isorhythmic motet has renewed analytical appro...
The outlines of isorhythmic motet composition in fourteenth-century France are well known today: the...
Nowadays, key features of fourteenth-century isorhythmic motet composition, especially in France, ar...
International audienceThis article investigates a corpus of sixteen thirteenth-century motets whose ...
This thesis examines the ways musical material are borrowed and re-used in early thirteenth century ...
This article investigates the relationship between textual accent and mensural rhythm in a sample of...
The present article seeks to further recent discussion of the diversity of the motet in the long thi...
PhDMusicUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umic...
Parmi les différents genres polyphoniques rencontrés en France à la fin du Moyen Âge, le motet isory...
In addressing questions of compositional process, scholars of medieval polyphony have relatively lit...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung ove...
This study focuses primarily on nine polyphonic ars nova motets contained within the early fourteent...