Music and the moderni, 1300–1350
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Music and the moderni, 1300–1350

The ars nova in Theory and Practice

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Music and the moderni, 1300–1350

The ars nova in Theory and Practice

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Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as 'new' and 'modern'. A close reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the fourteenth century reveals a modern musical art that arose due to specific innovations in music notation. The French ars nova employed as its theoretical fundament a new system for arranging musical time proposed by the astronomer and mathematician Jean des Murs. Challenging prevailing accounts of the ars nova, this book presents the 'new art' within the intellectual context of its time, revises the datings of Jean des Murs's writings on music theory, and presents the intersection of theory and practice for a crucial era in the history of music. Through contemporaneous accounts, Desmond explores how individuals were involved in 'changing' music in early fourteenth-century France, and the technical developments they pursued that precipitated this stylistic change.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781316731352
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Music History & Criticism

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title page
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. List of Tables
  9. List of Musical Examples
  10. Acknowledgements
  11. Note on Music Examples
  12. List of Manuscript Sigla
  13. List of Abbreviations
  14. List of Abbreviations for Anonymous Music Treatises
  15. 1 Introduction
  16. 2 Subtilitas and the ars nova
  17. 3 Jean des Murs, Quadrivial Scientist
  18. 4 Arts Old and New
  19. 5 From Trees to Degrees
  20. 6 Notational Dots and the Line of Musical Time
  21. Epilogue
  22. Appendix 1: List of Transitional ars nova Motets and Concordances
  23. Appendix 2: Key Dates in the Biography of Jean des Murs
  24. Appendix 3: Key Dates in the Biography of Philippe de Vitry
  25. Appendix 4: Sources of Jean des Murs’s Notitia and Conclusiones
  26. Appendix 5: Edition of Apta/Flos for Three Voices (including the Motet Texts and with a New Translation of the Triplum by Joshua Benjamins)
  27. Appendix 6: Works List for Jean des Murs
  28. Bibliography
  29. Index of Compositions
  30. General Index