Ars nova

Contents: Introduction; Part I Periodization and Boundaries: Novelty and renewal in Italy: 1300-1600, Nino Pirrotta; Ars nova and stil novo, Nino Pirrotta; Magister Egardus and other Italo-Flemish contacts, Reinhard Strohm; Problems of dating in ars nova and ars subtilior, Ursula G¼nther. Part II Sources: The ars nova fragments of Gent, Reinhard Strohm. Part III Music Theory: A phantom treatise of the 14th century? The ars nova, Sarah Fuller. Part IV Composers: Francesco Landini and the Florentine cultural ©lite, Michael P. Long; Gratiosus, Ciconia, and other musicians at Padua cathedral: some footnotes to present knowledge, Anne Hallmark; Further notes on Magister Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo, John N¡das; Musicology, archives, and historiography, Andrew Wathey. Part V Literary Studies: 'Un leggiadretto velo' ed altre cose petrarchesche, Pierluigi Petrobelli; Lyrics for reading and lyrics for singing in late medieval France: the development of the dance lyric from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut, Lawrence Earp; On text forms from Ciconia to Dufay, Nino Pirrotta; Leonardo Giustinian and quattrocento polyphonic song, David Fallows. Part VI Secular Song: New glimpses of an unwritten tradition, Nino Pirrotta; Improvisation in the madrigals of the Rossi codex, Brooks Toliver; Landini's musical patrimony: a reassessment of some compositional conventions in trecento polyphony, Michael Long; Machaut's balades with 4 voices, Elizabeth Eva Leach; Playing the citation game in the late 14th-century chanson, Yolanda Plumley. Part VII Sacred Music: The sacred polyphony of the Italian trecento, Kurt von Fischer; Zacara's D'amor Languire and strategies for borrowing in the early 15th-century Italian mass, Michael Scott Cuthbert. Part VIII Motets: The emergence of ars nova, Daniel Leech-Wilkinson; Myth and mythography in the motets of Philippe de Vitry, Andrew Wathey; Imitation in the ars nova and ars subtilior, Virginia Ervin Newes; Deception, exegesis and sou