14th century - Ars Nova and Beyond Flashcards
(19 cards)
Old Hall Manuscript
Large and intact collection of English sacred music from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
Contains music by Leonel Power
Leonel Power
1370s – 1445
English discant
A term used to describe passages of parallel 63 chords
Ars subtilior
Rhythmically and visually complex music written c. 1375-1420
Belle Bonne
La Harpe de Melodie
Guillaume de Machaut
1300 - 1377
Wrote Messe de Notre Dame in the 1360s
Isorhythm
Term coined by Friedrich Ludwig to describe a repeating rhythmic pattern in medieval music that became prominent in the 14th century
Term coined by Friedrich Ludwig to describe a repeating rhythmic pattern in medieval music that became prominent in the 14th century
Development: ligatures, ordo - taleae
Le Roman de Fauvel
Germans du Bus - 1314 - contains monophonic pieces and motets that use isorhythm
Ars Nova mensurations
Modus, tempus, prolationis species
Circle - perfect tempus - one long = 3 breves
Half circle - imperfect tempus - one long = 2 breves
Punctum perfectionis - perfect prolationis species - one breve = 3 minims
Treatise - Ars Nova
1322 - Phillipe de Vitry - introduced a mensuration system that included duple note divisions, and red ink to indicate these divisions, among other things
Phillip de Vitry
1291 - 1361
First English Bible
1380 - John Wycliffe
Canterbury Tales
1386
The Divine Comedy
1307
Black Plague
1347-51, 1375
The Hundred Years War
1338 - 1453 - largely an effort by France to drive out English influence and control
Avignon papacy
1309 – 1377
The great schism
1377 - 1417
Montpellier Codex
compiled c.1300
Contains the motets “Alle psallite cum luya” and “On parole - A Paris - Frese nouvele”
Robertsbridge Codex
Earliest notated keyboard music - c.1325-50
Contains “estampies” - an old dance form
