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; ita
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
Description: More so than for any other period in Western music of the past millennium, our collected knowledge of 14th-century music is contained in, and advanced through, scholarly articles. As yet, no monograph gathers the received opinions on style, composers and works of this period. This book attempts to redress the balance.
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.