Ars Nova

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Ars Nova
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REVIEW

• CONDUCTUS
• Freely composed
• One text, Latin poem
• Homorhythmic
• No relation to chant

• MOTET
• Often based on borrowed material
• Polytextual
• Polyrhythmic
• Cantus firmus

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Ars Nova

• ca. 1300
• Time of instability
• Also a time of creativity invention
• Realism secularism

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Ars Nova

• Name Ars Nova treatise on the new art
• Whats new about the Ars Nova?
• Rhythm, Notation Organization

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Rhythm

• Two innovations
• Duple triple rhythms
• Mensuration signs (time signatures)

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Mensuration signs
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Mensuration Vocabulary

• TEMPUS relationship of breves ( ) to semibreves
  ( )
• How many beats are in a bar?
• PROLATIO relationship of semibreve ( )
• to minim ( )
• How are the beats subdivided?

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Mensuration Vocabulary

• PERFECTUM 3
• IMPERFECTUM 2
• MAJOR 3
• MINOR 2
• Red notes Coloration

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Roman de Fauvel

• Fauvel acrostic of sins
• Flatérie
• Avarice
• Vilanie (depravity)
• Variété (fickleness)
• Envie
• Lascheté (cowardice)

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Roman de Fauvel
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ISORHYTHM

• Phillipe de Vitry
• Organization of Tenor
• Repeated units of rhythmic patterns TALEA
• Repeated units of melodic patterns COLOR
• EXAMPLE 16 Garrit Gallus/In nova fert/Neuma

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GUILLAUME de MACHAUT

• ca. 1300-1377
• 140 musical compositions
• Poetry

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Manuscript of Machauts poetry
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GUILLAUME de MACHAUT

• Liturgical music
• Isorhythmic Motets
• Monophonic songs
• Polyphonic songs

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GUILLAUME de MACHAUT

• Secular songs
• Both Monophonic Polyphonic
• Formes fixes
• Ballade aabC (C acts as a refrain)
• Virelai Abba Abba Abba A
• Rondeau A B a A a b A B

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From this lecture you need to know

• Whats new about the Ars Nova
• Know about mensuration notation
• Roman de Fauvel
• COMPOSERS
• Phillipe de Vitry
• Guillaume de Machaut

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From this lecture you need to know

• FORMS
• Isorhythmic motet
• color talea
• Formes fixes
• Rondeau
• Ballade
• Virelai