International audienceIn contrast to the archetypal model of the "tenor foundation," ars nova motets often present many isorhythmic inconsistencies between the upper and lower voices. Some of these structural divergences in Machaut's motets, however, seem to result from a compositional process initially based on a common arrangement of the voices. In order to discover this, it is necessary to move away from the isorhythm and examine the only musical data that are strictly periodic. These elements are the voice rests - pauses - which fragment the polyphony into many sections into which the musical discourse is divided. In principle, the rests of the upper voices follow an arrangement similar to that of the tenor, with the only difference tha...
This article investigates the relationship between textual accent and mensural rhythm in a sample of...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung ove...
Monophonic virelais constitute a significant proportion of Guillaume de Machaut's compositions in th...
While interest in the poetic-musical dimension of the isorhythmic motet has renewed analytical appro...
Parmi les différents genres polyphoniques rencontrés en France à la fin du Moyen Âge, le motet isory...
The question of how Machaut's polyphonic songs were fashioned has long occupied scholars. In the abs...
Despite frequent attempts to explain the emergence of a coherent type of polyphonic song in the earl...
Guillaume de Machaut's motets constitute a cycle. This study focuses upon Machaut's six Latin texted...
Nowadays, key features of fourteenth-century isorhythmic motet composition, especially in France, ar...
Analysis of the poetry of Guillaume de Machaut's lais reveals that a surprisingly large number of m...
Notwithstanding recent discoveries of big, textless hockets from the late thirteenth century, there ...
Though cadences have long been recognized as an aspect of modality, Gallus Dressler's treatise Praec...
International audienceThis article investigates a corpus of sixteen thirteenth-century motets whose ...
The examination of early two-voice motets reveals the prominence of the seven- (or eight-) syllable ...
In recent scholarship it has been increasingly emphasized that Machaut, particularly in his later se...
This article investigates the relationship between textual accent and mensural rhythm in a sample of...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung ove...
Monophonic virelais constitute a significant proportion of Guillaume de Machaut's compositions in th...
While interest in the poetic-musical dimension of the isorhythmic motet has renewed analytical appro...
Parmi les différents genres polyphoniques rencontrés en France à la fin du Moyen Âge, le motet isory...
The question of how Machaut's polyphonic songs were fashioned has long occupied scholars. In the abs...
Despite frequent attempts to explain the emergence of a coherent type of polyphonic song in the earl...
Guillaume de Machaut's motets constitute a cycle. This study focuses upon Machaut's six Latin texted...
Nowadays, key features of fourteenth-century isorhythmic motet composition, especially in France, ar...
Analysis of the poetry of Guillaume de Machaut's lais reveals that a surprisingly large number of m...
Notwithstanding recent discoveries of big, textless hockets from the late thirteenth century, there ...
Though cadences have long been recognized as an aspect of modality, Gallus Dressler's treatise Praec...
International audienceThis article investigates a corpus of sixteen thirteenth-century motets whose ...
The examination of early two-voice motets reveals the prominence of the seven- (or eight-) syllable ...
In recent scholarship it has been increasingly emphasized that Machaut, particularly in his later se...
This article investigates the relationship between textual accent and mensural rhythm in a sample of...
In the latter half of the thirteenth century, the motet – two to four Latin or French texts sung ove...
Monophonic virelais constitute a significant proportion of Guillaume de Machaut's compositions in th...