Ars nova
Subtitle: French and Italian music in the fourteenth century
By: edited by John L. Nádas, Michael Scott Cuthbert.
Contributors: Nádas, John Louis.; Cuthbert, Michael Scott.
Series: Music in medieval Europe; Music in medieval Europe
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9780754627081
Subjects: Music -- France -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism; Music -- Italy -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism; Muziek; Frankrijk; Italië
Notes: Previsouly published papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

One chapter in Italian.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Periodization and boundaries. Novelty and renewal in Italy : 1300-1600 / Nino Pirrotta ; Ars nova and stil novo / Nino Pirrotta ; Magister Egardus and other Italo-Flemish contacts / Reinhard Strohm ; Problems of dating in Ars nova and Ars subtilior / Ursula Günther; title: pt. 2. Sources. The ars nova fragments of Gent / Reinhard Strohm; title: pt. 3 Music theory. A phantom treatise of the 14th century? : the Ars nova / Sarah Fuller; title: pt. 4. Composers. Francesco Landini and the Florentine cultural élite / Michael P. Long ; Gratiosus, Ciconia, and other musicians at Padua cathedral : some footnotes to present knowledge / Anne Hallmark ; Further notes on Magister Antonius dictus Zacharias de Teramo / John Nádas ; Musicology, archives, and historiography / Andrew Wathey; title: pt. 5. Literary studies. ''Un leggiadretto velo'' ed altre cose petrarchesche / Pierluigi Petrobelli ; Lyrics for reading and lyrics for singing in late medieval France : the development of the dance lyric from Adam de la Halle to Guillaume de Machaut / Lawrence Earp ; On text forms from Ciconia to Dufay / Nino Pirrotta ; Leonardo Giustinian and quattrocento polyphonic song / David Fallows; title: pt. 6. Secular song. New glimpses of an unwritten tradition / Nino Pirrotta ; Improvisation in the madrigals of the Rossi codex / Brooks Toliver ; Landini's musical patrimony : a reassessment of some compositional conventions in trecento polyphony / Michael Long ; Machaut's balades with 4 voices / Elizabeth Eva Leach ; Playing the citation game in the late 14th-century chanson / Yolanda Plumley; title: pt. 7. Sacred music. The sacred polyphony of the Italian trecento / Kurt von Fischer ; Zacara's D'amor languire and strategies for borrowing in the early 15th-century Italian mass / Michael Scott Cuthbert; title: pt. 8. Motets. The emergence of ars nova / Daniel Leech-Wilkinson ; Myth and mythography in the motets of Philippe de Vitry / Andrew Wathey ; Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior / Virginia Ervin Newes ; Deception, exegesis and sounding number in Machaut's motet 15 / Margaret Bent; title: pt. 9. Performance practice. Machaut's ''pupil'' Deschamps on the performance of music : voices or instruments in the 14th-century chanson / Christopher Page ; Texting in 15th-century French chansons : a look ahead from the 14th century / Lawrence Earp.