Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as' new'and'modern'. A close
reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the …

This article focuses on the perception and cognition involved in music listening skills as
essential criteria in selecting solmization systems. Drawing on many aural key-identification …

Most aspects of medieval culture reflect a model of hierarchical order-ing: the feudal system
that places a lord above his vassal; the class sys-tem that places nobility above the …

A fascinating interdisciplinary approach to how everyday Western music works, and why the
tones, melodies, and chords combine as they do. Despite the cultural diversity of our …

LEONARDO DA VINCI famously characterized music as “giving shape... to invisible things”;
1 the authors of these three essays on recent trends in the study of music illuminate a range …

This paper develops a theory of large-scale tonal structure for the secular, polyphonic music
of Machaut. Allowing for the possibility of multiple tonal centers in individual works, it …

This article analyzes the distribution of three-and four-voice vertical sonorities in a repertoire
of French ars antiqua and ars nova motets. Rather than selecting the subjectively important …

While analyses of vocal music often highlight connections between textual meaning and
musical structure, less common is the study of language sounds in relation to musical …

In balades 27 and 38, Machaut likens the wounds suffered by the lover to those that result
from the poisons of deadly beasts. He invokes animal imagery to depict the beloved and her …

The extant fourteenth-century contrapunctus manuals are concerned almost exclusively with
counterpoint in two parts, but one treatise,“Quicumque voluerit duos contrapuncti,” sheds …