10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CANTUS FIRMUS»
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cantus firmus in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cantus firmus and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This chorale concludes a cantata that uses the cantus firmus "Aus tiefer Not" in
the first, fourth and final movements, each time in a different compositional texture
and thus within a different harmonic/contrapuntal idiom. In the following ...
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Theory and Practice of Musical Composition
Considering the whole, we find confirmed what we have so lately said, namely —
the insufficiency of our means for the proper distinction of the cantus firmus in the
lower voices. Here, evidently, every other voice is more richly developed than ...
Adolph Bernhard Marx, Herrman S. Saroni, Emilius Girac, 1860
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Write All These Down: Essays on Music
I ' I Et ter - 13 pax ho - mi - ni-bus bo-nae vo - lun - ta The second cantus firmus
cursus (Sanctus and Agnus) employs various refinements, in addition to the
numerical vowel code. Three of the five movements use the time unit of the minim
, and ...
University Joseph Kerman, 1994
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Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century: ...
The word “exemplary” is used here in its strictest meaning (a meaning related to
the strict meaning of the world “classic” as well): Busnoys's Mass exemplifies the
style and form of the fifteenth-century cantus firmus Mass at its most characteristic
...
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Early Music History: Volume 19: Studies in Medieval and ...
It will be argued that Banaster chose Regnum mundi as his cantus firmus on
account of its thematic relevance to the motet text, and that in so doing he
collaborated. * I should like to record my thanks to Dr Margaret Bent, Dr Ian
Biddle and ...
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Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
2) Use the same cantus firmus for each new counterpoint. 3) Never create
counterpoints without obligations.25 Here, then, is the heart of his pedagogical
program—a systematic ap- proach in which increasingly sophisticated
obligations are ...
Susan Forscher Weiss, Russell E. Murray, Jr., Cynthia J. Cyrus, 2010
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The Cultural Life of the Early Polyphonic Mass: Medieval ...
Johannes Ott One, rather later, source that does discuss cantus firmus layout is,
intri- guingly, also a landmark in the discussion of varietas: this is the preface to
the Missae tredecim quatuor vocibus (Nuremberg: Hieronymus Graphaeus, 1539
) ...
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A History of Baroque Music
The music for these ensembles can be divided into several categories: (11)
cantus firmus compositions; (2) the fantasia or fancy; (3) variations, including
those of improvisatory character on grounds; (4) dance forms often entitled aires (
or ...
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The Motet in the Age of Du Fay
The various oppositions and threads of development (English and continental,
three- and four-voice, with and without cantus firmus, with and without isorhythm)
become tangled. I have chosen to divide the repertory into works with tenor ...
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Explaining Tonality: Schenkerian Theory and Beyond
When we think about First Species counterpoint, it is important to begin by
considering the structure of the cantus firmus. For convenience, these are
presented in figure 1.2 (Fuxian cantus firmi). According to Fux, the six tunes
shown in figure ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CANTUS FIRMUS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
cantus firmus is used in the context of the following news items.
Baroque Music Festival, Corona del Mar illuminates two sides of Bach
... ways: in the first (BWV 659) floating high above the counterpoint, in the other (BWV 661) as a cantus firmus, a bass line played in the pedals. «OCRegister, Jun 15»
This is the fruit of prayer–seeing God's will
In his book “The Enduring Melody,” Anglican priest Michael Mayne talks about the two strands of the cantus firmus, the enduring melody laid ... «Inquirer.net, Jun 15»
Sweelink's Impact
It was his work in the field of cantus firmus elaboration that was to have the most significant effect on the contemporary German composers. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
BEMF Plus Dark Horse: Triumph
... the Magnificat could be heard sometimes in long-note cantus firmus style, sometimes sporadically within a many-voiced contrapuntal texture, ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Jun 15»
Dog Star 11: Happy Valley Band and Desert Magic
... James Brown was heard singing the familiar tune – a kind of cantus firmus that anchored the listener against the whirlwind of rapid variations. «Sequenza21, May 15»
ANTOINE BRUMEL: Nato canunt Omnia; Beata es, Maria; Lauda …
The work is a paraphrase mass, where the cantus firmus is elaborate, and each voice sings a “paraphrase” of it—not quite a variation. The work ... «Audiophile Audition, Apr 15»
Robert Ashley's Dust Choreographed by fidget co-founder Megan …
The opera explores the medieval form of the motet, in which the cantus firmus is sung to a regular rhythm by one voice, and then elaborated on ... «The Dance Journal, Apr 15»
Ecumenical Easter letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury
... it is the tested cantus firmus over the ages for all Christians. Beyond human imagination, the power of the resurrection overcomes disparate, ... «Anglicannews, Apr 15»
European Music Festival 2015 to be held between 25 March and 10 …
Sofia. Cantus Firmus Music Agency presents the 15th edition of European Music Festival which will take place in Sofia between 25 March and ... «Focus News, Mar 15»
Obscure Contrapuntalist Revealed
Borrowing Binchois's tenor as a cantus firmus was one way to honor an older composer. Ockeghem also composed a eulogy on the death of ... «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Feb 15»
