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Music and the moderni, 1300–1350

The ars nova in Theory and Practice

  • Author: Desmond, Karen
Karen Desmond's excellent new book ... proposes a new way of thinking about the ars nova of fourteenth-century French music ... her account will prove an essential contribution to thinking about... More…

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$117.75

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Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Subtilitas and the ars nova
  • 3. Jean des Murs, Quadrivial Scientist
  • 4. Arts old and new
  • 5. From trees to degrees
  • 6. Notational dots and the line of musical time
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: list of transitional ars nova motets and concordances
  • Appendix 2: key dates in the biography of Jean des Murs
  • Appendix 3: key dates in the biography of Philippe de Vitry
  • Appendix 4: sources of Jean des Murs's notitia and conclusiones
  • Appendix 5: edition of Apta/Flos
  • Appendix 6: works list for Jean des Murs.