14th century - Ars Nova and Beyond Flashcards
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
