Directly or indirectly the essays collected in this volume all address one or more of the issues regarding ars antiqua polyphony-questions relating to the nature and definition of genre; the evolution of the polyphonic idiom; the workings ...

Series: Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance Pagination: xxxi + 38 pp.

In this book, Mark Everist demonstrates how the poetry and music interact, explores how musical structures are created, and discusses the geographical and temporal reach of the genre, including its significance for performance today.

The book develops a view that spoken performances and sung performances of this repertory had their own distinct traditions, and that the most acceptable method of transcription for many conducti is a rhythmically neutral one which signals ...

... conductus for which no satisfactory reading has been found , there is little reason to reject the testi- mony of the theorists as to the modal character of the repertory as a whole . The situation is otherwise with the monophonic pieces ...