Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - Roman De Fauvel, Philippe De Vitry, Johannes De Muris
7 Feb 2013
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Feb 1 music in the 14th century: france: the ars nova. Up to now, pan-european style (spain, england etc. ) *ars nova new art style always associated with 14th century french music. De vitry"s treatise on the style is called ars nova. 1300-1350) also wrote a music theory treatise: ars novae musicae (the new art of music). Increased use of minims and semi-minims the long is no longer relevant. Duple metre is as legitimate as triple due to notation shift focus on smaller notation divisions. Imperfections created by notes not "next" to each other in value eg. a minim imperfects a breve, etc. Relating two notes or more apart creates rhythmic complexity. Using red ink (colouration) to imperfect a note value. Circle/half-circle: indicates how many semibreves in a breve. Dot/no dot: indicates how many minims in a semibreve. The "tempus" corresponds to semibreve-breve ratio (eg. circle/half-circle sign) The "prolatio" corresponds to the minim-semibreve ratio (eg. dot/no dot sign). pg.
