Margaret Bent

Question 1

Her method…

Answer 1

‘reaffirms a role for historically appropriate theory in the analysis of early music’

Question 2

Favours a form of analysis that is…

Answer 2

‘properly attuned to their musical syntax not cobbled ad hoc from ours’

Question 3

Article in question

Answer 3

‘The Grammar of Early Music: Preconditions for Analysis’ (1998)

Question 4

Centrality of dyadic grammar - some evidence

Answer 4

‘Cum notum sit’ - ‘in counterpoint there ought not to be two tenths, octaves, fifths, or unisons together in succession’

Question 5

Berkeley Anonymous evidence

Answer 5

writes that the rules of 14th C counterpoint were not always written down –> lingua franca between composers and performers

Question 6

On triads in Machaut

Answer 6

Does not deny their existence but suggests that they are based on dyads - should not be conceived in terms of the later model of triadic harmony