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Paperback | 9 September 1985

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This new and illuminating study of medieval polyphony examines the links between music and contemporary political, civil and religious events. The period from the second half of the twelfth century to the second half of the fifteenth is of great historical interest since it marks the development of polyphonic forms and the birth of mensural music. There is also the earliest evidence of individual composers, from Leonin and Perotin to Machaut, Landini and Dufay. Alberto Gallo pays particular attention to the elaboration of refined techniques of composing, often drawing a parallel with the techniques of rhetoric and poetry. The writing down of music and also theory are shown to be essential stages of composition. Professor Gallo also describes the birth of the professional composer and the flowering of those permanent institutions within which musicians worked and which for centuries characterized European music. Professor Gallo has taken the opportunity of this first English edition to update the text, and to add notes."

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Non-Fiction Arts & Entertainment Music History General & World History

List of illustrations	p. vii
Abbreviations	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Maps	p. xiii
The Thirteenth Century
Music and grammar	p. 1
Music and rhetoric	p. 7
Music and poetics	p. 10
Organum at Notre-Dame	p. 13
The 'political' conductus	p. 18
The motet in French	p. 21
Fourteenth-Century France
Ars vetus / ars nova	p. 29
Latin motets on 'political' topics	p. 33
Talea and colores	p. 36
'Le noble rethorique ... flour de melodies'	p. 39
From poetical to musical technique	p. 45
Ballades and rondeaux	p. 48
Fourteenth-Century Italy
Padua	p. 53
The courts of 'Lombardy'	p. 56
The madrigal	p. 61
Florence	p. 65
The Tuscan novellieri	p. 69
The ballata	p. 75
The Fifteenth Century
The professional composer	p. 77
Politics and music in the Republic of Venice	p. 82
The transmission of music	p. 87
Biography of a composer	p. 92
Retorique and musique at the court of Burgundy	p. 99
Account of a festival	p. 102
Readings
The philosophy of praxis	p. 109
Lambert	p. 109
Jacques de Lieges	p. 109
Marchetto da Padova	p. 110
Ugolino da Orvieto	p. 111
The semiotics of notation	p. 113
Johannes de Grocheo	p. 113
Johannes de Muris	p. 113
Marchetto da Padova	p. 114
Prosdocimus de Beldemandis	p. 116
The codification of form	p. 117
Walter Odington	p. 117
Anonymous (French)	p. 119
Anonymous (Italian)	p. 119
Johannes Tinctoris	p. 121
Changes in usage within a generation	p. 122
Franco of Cologne	p. 122
Jacques de Lieges	p. 123
Filipoctus de Caserta	p. 124
Johannes Tinctoris	p. 125
Interest in musicians	p. 126
Anonymous IV	p. 126
Anonymous poet	p. 127
Filippo Villani	p. 128
Martin Le Franc	p. 129
Composers in their milieu	p. 130
Salimbene da Parma	p. 130
Guillaume de Machaut	p. 132
Giovanni Gherardi	p. 133
Guillaume Dufay	p. 135
Notes	p. 139
General bibliography	p. 145
Detailed bibliography	p. 147
General index	p. 151
Index of work titles	p. 156
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