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…
Book
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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.