French and English Polyphony of the 13th and 14th Centuries

Style and Notation

Ernest H. Sanders

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781138385214
• eBook ISBN:
  9780429763373
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: World History

First published in 1998, this volume brings together the most part of the author's work on medieval polyphony. The most significant advance in music during the period in the High Gothic was the development of a system of rhythm and of its notation, the modern understanding of which was to a considerable extent obscured by an undue emphasis on the so-called rhythmic modes. The investigation of this topic forms the centre of this book, and a related essay deals with rhythmic Latin poetry. Other pieces survey the accomplishments of Europe's first great composer and the flourishing of the medieval motet, whose rise he stimulated, while several essays focus on English polyphony, and on what remains of the motets of Philippe de Vitry, a major figure in Parisian intellectual circles of the 14th century.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• I Tonal Aspects of 13th-Century English Polyphony
• II Cantilena and Discant in 14th-Century English Polyphony
• III The Question of Perotin's Oeuvre and Dates
• IV The Medieval Motet
• V The Medieval Hocket in Practice and Theory
• VI The Early Motets of Philippe de Vitry
• VII English Polyphony in the Morgan Library Manuscript
• VIII Consonance and Rhythm in the Organum of the 12th and 13th Centuries
• IX Sine littera and cum littera in Medieval Polyphony
• X Style and Technique in Datable Polyphonic Notre-Dame Conductus
• XI Conductus and Modal Rhythm
• XII The Earliest Phases of Measured Polyphony
• XIII Rithmus
• Additions and Corrections
• Index of Names and Texts
• Index of Manuscripts