Ars nova

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Contents: Introduction Part I Periodization and Boundaries: Novelty and renewal in Italy: 1300a "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 GA nther. Part II Sources: The ars nova fragments of Gent, Reinhard Strohm. Part III Music Theory: A phantom treatise of the 14th century? The ars nova, Sarah Fuller. Part IV Composers: Francesco Landini and the Florentine cultural A(c)lite, 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 NA!das Musicology, archives, and historiography, Andrew Wathey. Part V 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. Part VI 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. Part VII 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. Part VIII 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. Part IX 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 Index.