Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. 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 version of a seventh-century Hispanic melody. The second rediscovers a long-forgotten hypothesis concerning the microtonal character of some French 11th-century neumes. In the paper "Is it polyphony?" an even riskier hypothesis is arrived at: Do the origins of Aquitanian free organum lie on the instrumental accompaniment of newly composed devotional versus? The Cistercian attitude towards polyphonic singing, mirrored in musical sources kept in peripheral nunneries, is the subject of the following essay. The intellectual and sociological nature of the Parisian motet is the central concern of the following two essays, which, after a survey of concepts of temporality in the trouvere and polyphonic repertories, establish it as the conceptual foundation of subsequent European schools of composition. It is possible then to assess the real originality of Philippe de Vitry and his Ars nova, which is dealt with in the following chapter. A century later, the role of Guillaume Dufay in establishing a chord-based alternative to contrapuntal writing is laboriously put into evidence. Finally, an informative synthesis is offered concerning the mathematical underpinnings of musical composition in the Middle Ages. From Gallican Chant to Dufay. The essays collected here, written between 1989 and 2007, concern different aspects of medieval music in France from the 8th century up to the mid-15th, covering a wide range of subjects Gallican survivals in Gregorian chant, the Cluniac and Cistercian versions of it, rhythm and variation in trouvre song, the origins of Aquitanian polyphony, the evolution of counterpoint up to the 13th century, the intellectual novelty of the Parisian motet, the mathematical underpinning of the Ars nova and the presence of triads in the music of Dufay. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781138375895

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Revisiting the Music of Medieval France

Manuel Pedro Ferreira

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