10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PROLATION»
Discover the use of
prolation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
prolation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Medieval Music and the Art of Memory
... first in perfect mode and time of the greater [perfect and imperfect always apply
to major mode and tempus, greater and lesser to minor mode and prolation], the
second way in imperfect mode and time of the greater, third in perfect mode and ...
Anna Maria Busse Berger, 2005
2
Ars Cantus Mensurabilis Mensurata Per Modos Iuris
This is proven by the philosopher in the first book of De caelo: all perfection
dwells in trinity.30 Third Conclusion That there are five parts of prolation: maxima,
longa, brevis, semibrevis, and minima. This is proven in natural things: a
maximum ...
C. Matthew Balensuela, 1994
3
The Berkeley Manuscript: University of California Music ...
is contrary to the common custom of singers, who place the semibreves as varied
according to the prolation, so that if a black semibrevis should be worth three
minimae , a red one will be worth two equal in value with the black ones. And I
say ...
Oliver B. Ellsworth, 1984
4
Musica Franca: Essays in Honor of Frank A. D'Accone
Just as there is disagreement over the proper relationship between the breve and
semibreve, there are also divergent opinions about the prolation, or the minim-to-
semibreve relationship. As seen previously in Examples 3 and 4, each minim ...
Frank A. D'Accone, Irene Alm, Alyson McLamore, 1996
5
Music History Super Review
However, a way had to be found out of this difficulty; and they found it by means
of a system which they called prolation. They said : The circle O is perfect like the
Holy Trinity. It shall represent 3 beats (perfect time). Half the circle C is imperfect ...
Charles V. Stanford Cecil Forsyth Research & Education Association
6
Theoretical-practical Elements of Music, Parts III and IV
Some greater amount of light shines through relative to prolation, with which they
intended to fix not only the relan'onship of the brevis with the semibrevis but also
that of the semibrevis with the minima. It was of four types: I. Major perfect ...
7
Music Analysis in the Nineteenth Century: Fugue, form, and style
It was the combination of new words with those of the mass; the use of differing
Time and Prolation;16 and the canons. In the first and most solemn mass, one of
the parts (usually the soprano) constantly sings the notes and words of the ...
8
A plain and easy introduction to practical music ...: ...
It followeth, to set downe the Prolation in the times perfect and vnper- fect :
Prolation perfect in the time perfect, is thus : JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ JJJ
JJJJJJJJJ Great Moode impersect. Small Moode impersect, time and pro- © O
lation ...
9
Ritual Meanings in the Fifteenth-Century Motet
Figure 1.2. Anonymous, Quatuorprincipalia. The four divisions ofthe breve: (1)
imperfect time, minor prolation: ; (2) Perfect time, minor prolation: ; (3) imperfect
time, major prolation: ; (4) perfect time, major prolation: has a different
mensuration, ...
Robert Michael Nosow, 2012
Vitracio, who died 1360, with the signs 9 and G for the Greater and Lesser
Prolation respectively. The Rest or Pause for the Semibreve was T, for the Minim .
_-_. In Greater Prolation Q or G, a Semibreve = 3 Minims » Lesser n O or r n = 2 n
The ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PROLATION»
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prolation is used in the context of the following news items.
Cellist Alban Gerhardt caps a varied week in solid Shostakovich with …
It consists essentially of a descending A Minor scale in prolation canon, a centuries-old technique that has different parts play the same theme ... «The Oregonian, Apr 14»
Maurizio Pollini: ice-man of the ivories
Think of the really complex pieces in the history of music – Bach's Art of Fugue, the Prolation Mass by Ockeghem (a 15th-century Flemish ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 10»
