The idealization of European music results from a storied music tradition that emerged in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries through the canonization of musical works with closely …

Interval-succession treatises convey idiomatic polyphony by explaining what vertical
intervals between two voices could follow one another in improvisation and counterpoint, as …

This article explores the continued use of eighteenth-century metric manipulations by
composers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These manipulations, called imbroglio …

The authors report on experiments they have run using the computer to search a small
corpus of Renaissance pieces (the famous Lassus duos of 1577) for recurring contrapuntal …

Notwithstanding the reputation of Josquin's Ave Maria… virgo serena as a touchstone of late–
fifteenth-century musical style, little is known about the context in which the piece emerged …

Musicians use a broad spectrum of practices to make new music out of old: performance,
including everything from making performing choices to improvising variants or added …

The compositional process behind the iconic Tallis forty-part motet, Spem in alium (ca. 1570)
remains an enigma. Did he really check every pair of voices for illegal parallels? The author …

This study situates theories of movable counterpoint by the Russian composer and theorist
Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev (1856–1915) against current scholarship on Renaissance music …

Cet article revisite trois moments de l'histoire de la musique européenne occidentale en
intégrant des perspectives qui rendent compte des mouvements globaux de la musique et …

Taking as a starting point Gioseffo Zarlino's concerns in book III, chapter 28 of his Le
istitutioni harmoniche about imitative voice entries at the second and other dissonant …