{"product_id":"revisiting-the-music-of-medieval-france-by-manuel-pedro-ferreira-9781138375895","title":"Revisiting the Music of Medieval France","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book presents together a number of path-breaking essays on different aspects of medieval music in France written by Manuel Pedro Ferreira, who is well known for his work on the medieval cantigas and Iberian liturgical sources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe first essay is a tour-de-force of detective work: an odd E-flat in two 16th-century antiphoners leads to the identification of a Gregorian responsory as a Gallican version of a seventh-century Hispanic melody. The second rediscovers a long-forgotten hypothesis concerning the microtonal character of some French 11th-century neumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the paper \"Is it polyphony?\" an even riskier hypothesis is arrived at: Do the origins of Aquitanian free organum lie on the instrumental accompaniment of newly composed devotional versus?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cistercian attitude towards polyphonic singing, mirrored in musical sources kept in peripheral nunneries, is the subject of the following essay.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe intellectual and sociological nature of the Parisian motet is the central concern of the following two essays, which, after a survey of concepts of temporality in the trouvère and polyphonic repertories, establish it as the conceptual foundation of subsequent European schools of composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is possible then to assess the real originality of Philippe de Vitry and his \u003cem\u003eArs nova\u003c\/em\u003e, which is dealt with in the following chapter. A century later, the role of Guillaume Dufay in establishing a chord-based alternative to contrapuntal writing is laboriously put into evidence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFinally, an informative synthesis is offered concerning the mathematical underpinnings of musical composition in the Middle Ages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47607513055468,"sku":"9781138375895","price":109.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138375895-revisiting-the-music-of-medieval-france.jpg?v=1778169266","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/revisiting-the-music-of-medieval-france-by-manuel-pedro-ferreira-9781138375895","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}