1st Edition
Revisiting the Music of Medieval France From Gallican Chant to Dufay
By Manuel Pedro Ferreira
Copyright 2012
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book presents together a number of path-breaking essays on different aspects of medieval music in France written by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, who is well known for his work on the medieval cantigas and Iberian liturgical sources. The first essay is a tour-de-force of detective work: an odd E-flat in two 16th-century antiphoners leads to the identification of a Gregorian responsory as a Gallican... Read more
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.
Biography
Manuel Pedro Ferreira, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
'... this is all readable, challenging material, hard to find otherwise.' Early Music Review
