... courtois , now a common label for “high-style” songs. Other literary scholars, notably Paul Zumthor and Pierre Bec, have discussed problems in classifying styles and genres. References to genres in medieval texts are ambiguous, and manuscripts rarely group songs by genre. Theorists such as Raimon Vidal...

...Jennifer Bain The music of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) has often been described as standing outside medieval chant traditions. This article argues that although many features of her music deviate from early chant, her repertoire conforms instead in remarkable ways with a late chant style, which...

... his notion of polymodal chromaticism retains integral “diatonic ingredients,” the Dasian space (named after the medieval homonymous scale) establishes a system of relations between all potential diatonic segments, without relying upon traditional constraints, such as complete diatonic collections...

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..., Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Barker Andrew , ed. 1984 –1989. Greek Musical Writings . 2 Vols. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Barker Andrew . 2007 . The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece . New York...

.... 2001 . Music, Body and Desire in Medieval Culture, from Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer. Stanford: Stanford University Press. Huot, Sylvia. 1999 . “Troubadour Lyric and Old French Narrative.” In The Troubadours: An Introduction , ed. Simon Gaunt and Sarah Kay, 69 -74. Cambridge: Cambridge...

... Middle Ages to 1300, ed. Richard Crocker and David Hiley, 485–556. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1990. “ Modal Tenors and Tonal Orientation in Motets of Guillaume de Machaut.” In Studies in Medieval Music: Festschrift for Ernest Sanders...

... . 1972 . Essai de poétique medievale . Paris : Éditions du Seuil . Translated by Bennet Philip . 1992. Toward a Medieval Poetics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press . REVIEWS Michael Bernhard and Elz˙bieta Witkowska-Zaremba...

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... Musicological Society 51 : 630 -36. Brothers, Thomas. 1997 . Chromatic Beauty in the Late Medieval Chanson: An Interpretation of Manuscript Accidentals . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Crocker, Richard L. 1962 . “Discant, Counterpoint and Harmony.” Journal of the American Musicological...

... SCHOLARLY STUDY of the French medieval motet—a genre prominent from the ars antiqua of the thirteenth century through the ars nova of the fourteenth century—began in the early twentieth century, the tenor line has been central to interpretation and analysis of this repertory. There are multiple reasons...

... universe. In Musica , a substratum of preexistent modal knowledge replaces Boethian number relationships as the foundation underlying basic elements of music theory. 2008 2008 Sarah Fuller is professor of music at Stony Brook University. Her recent publications on medieval music theory include...

... recently, of Inside the Offertory: Aspects of Chronology and Transmission (2009). 2008 2008 Atkinson, Charles. 2008 . The Critical Nexus: Tone-System, Mode, and Notation in Early Medieval Music . New York: Oxford University Press. Bernhard, Michael, Bernhold Schmid, and Calvin Bower...

... and Bohlman Philip Vilas , 3 – 36 . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . Bradley Catherine A. 2018 . Polyphony in Medieval Paris . Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press . Brittan Francesca , Raz Carmel , Mathew Nicholas , Kieffer Alexandra...

...Stefano Mengozzi Stefano Mengozzi is associate professor of musicology at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Renaissance Reform of Medieval Music Theory: Guido of Arezzo between Myth and History (2010). McKinney Timothy R. Adrian Willaert and the Theory...

... of writing musical notes, which he justified in accordance with contemporary scholastic ideas about the organization of time. Some years after des Murs completed his work, a critic named Jacobus wrote the Speculum musicae, the most substantial medieval treatise about music. Attacking des Murs, Jacobus...

... Music History, and Plainsong and Medieval Music. David S. Lefkowitz is Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at UCLA. He has published several articles on Schoenberg’s piano music in Music Analy- sis and Intégral, and is writing the music for a Chinese dance-drama adaptation of Eugene...

... on Tymoczko's proposal of defining tonal as simply “not atonal,” 2 one common consensus around modal seems to be that modal music is anything that is neither tonal nor atonal—a vast world-encircling bucket into which medieval chant, Renaissance polyphony, Sacred Harp music, later jazz, most rock...

... , and the Medieval toni ecclesiastici , but also the Arabic maqam , South Asian raga , Persian gushe , Javanese patet , Japanese chōshi , and Chinese diao , in addition to countless vernacular and folk traditions of music (Powers 1992 : 207–19; also Blum 2023 : 88–89). More relevant to Yust's essay, mode...

... Fétis's theories of tonality were refined by studies of repertories few would unequivocally call “tonal” today: plainchant, medieval song, and popular song. 3 Chapter 2, “Chant,” examines how Fétis's characterization of plainchant as the paragon of tonalité ancienne inspired church authorities...