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Franco of Cologne (fl. mid to late 13th century; also Franco of Paris) was a German music theorist and possibly a composer. He was one of the most influential theorists of the Late Middle Ages, and was the first to propose an idea which was to transform musical notation permanently: that the duration of any note should be determined by its appearance on the page, and not from context alone.
12th century in music – 13th century in music – 1300s in music. Events ... [Cim.] 14523), one of the two main treatises on the theory of Notre Dame polyphony. ...
Introduced strict music theory of shōmyō, based on that of gagaku. This included standards for modulation, rhythm, pitch and new five-tone notation system (goin-bakase) [73] Śārṅgadeva: fl. early 13th century: Indian Sangita Ratnakara [Ocean of Music] Wrote the authoritative text for subsequent Indian music [74] Ficker Anonymous: early ...
Medieval music is the music of the Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. [1] The first and longest era of Western classical music, Medieval music saw the presence of various music theorists, such as Boethius, Hucbald, Guido of Arezzo, Johannes Cotto, Franco of Cologne and Philippe de Vitry.
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The Montpellier Codex is a critical source for what are known as "Pre-Franconian" and "Franconian" motets, after Franco of Cologne.While the music in the Codex is anonymous, a number of attributions can be made, either because of concordances in other manuscripts or on the basis of stylistic similarity, to Pérotin (from fascicle 1), Petrus de Cruce, Adam de la Halle, Guillaume d'Auvergne, and ...
Until the mid-1980s it was believed that Johannes de Garlandia lived in the first half of the 13th century and wrote two treatises, De Mensurabili Musica and De plana musica, and thus was intimately connected with the composers of the Notre-Dame school, at least one of whom – Pérotin – may still have been alive in the earlier part of his career.
Anonymous IV is the designation given to the writer of an important treatise of medieval music theory. [1] He was probably an English student working at Notre Dame de Paris, most likely in the 1270s or 1280s. Nothing is known about his life. His writings survive in two partial copies from Bury St Edmunds; one from the 13th century, and one from ...