Medieval Music

Contents

• Contents: Introduction
• Part I Plainchant: The performance of plainchant: some preliminary observations of the new era, Lance W. Brunner
• Giving voice to Gregorian chant or: coping with modern orthodoxies, Katarina Livljanic. Part II Secular Monophony: Rhythm, meter, and melodic organization in medieval songs, Hans Tischler
• The 'not-so-precisely measured' music of the Middle Ages, Hendrik van der Werf
• Voices and instruments in medieval French secular music: on the use of literary texts as evidence for performance practice, Sylvia Huot
• Johannes de Grocheio on secular music: a corrected text and a new translation, Christopher Page. Part III Polyphony to 1300: The performance of Parisian organum, Edward Roesner
• Franco of Cologne on the rhythm of organum purum, Charles M. Atkinson
• The Copula according to Johannes de Garlandia, Jeremy Yudkin
• Conductus and modal rhythm, Ernest H. Sanders
• The performance of ars antiqua motets, Christopher Page. Part IV Mass and Motet after 1300: Representations of the Mass in medieval and Renaissance art, James W. McKinnon
• The performing ensemble for English church polyphony, c.1320-c.1390, Roger Bowers
• Text underlay in early 15th-century musical manuscripts, Gilbert Reaney. Part V The Polyphonic Chanson: Machaut's 'pupil' Deschamps on the performance of music: voices or instruments in the 14th-century chanson, Christopher Page
• The performance of songs in late medieval France: a new source, Christopher Page
• Texting in 15th-century French chansons: a look ahead from the 14th century, Lawrence Earp
• Embellishment and urtext in the 15th-century song repertories, David Fallows. Part VI Other Matters: Musica recta and musica ficta, Margaret Bent
• The origin and early history of proportion signs, Anna Maria Busse Berger
• Jerome of Moravia on the Rubeba and Viella, Christopher Page
• The 'Arabian influence' thesis revisited, Shai Burstyn
• Series bibliography
• Name index.