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A German theorist of a slightly later period, Franco of Cologne, was the first to describe a system of notation in which differently shaped notes have entirely different rhythmic values (in the Ars cantus mensurabilis, c. 1280), an innovation which had a massive impact on the subsequent history of European music. Most of the surviving notated ...
Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.
Guido of Arezzo (Italian: Guido d'Arezzo; [n 1] c. 991–992 – after 1033) was an Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music.A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor—or by some, developer—of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation and practice.
The Ensemble für frühe Musik Augsburg is a German early music ensemble founded in 1977 and specializing in medieval music. [1] [2] The ensemble is regarded as "renowned" in Germany. [3] The founding members are Hans Ganser (voice, recorder, percussion), Rainer Herpichböhm (voice, lute, gothic harp), Heinz Schwamm (voice, fiddle, bombard).
Jacobus of Liège (died after 1330) was a music theorist active in the Southern Netherlands in the late middle ages. [1] He compiled the largest surviving medieval treatise on music, Latin : Speculum musicae (the Mirror of Music ), probably in the 1320s and 1330s.
The Trecento was a period of vigorous activity in Italy in the arts, including painting, architecture, literature, and music. The music of the Trecento paralleled the achievements in the other arts in many ways, for example, in pioneering new forms of expression, especially in secular song in the vernacular language, Italian.
Ars cantus mensurabilis (Latin for the art of the measurable song) [1] is a music theory treatise from the mid-13th century, c. 1250–1280 written by German music theorist Franco of Cologne. [2] The treatise was written shortly after De Mensurabili Musica , a treatise by Johannes de Garlandia , which summarised a set of six rhythmic modes in ...
Pérotin, "Alleluia nativitas", in the third rhythmic mode. In medieval music, the rhythmic modes were set patterns of long and short durations (or rhythms).The value of each note is not determined by the form of the written note (as is the case with more recent European musical notation), but rather by its position within a group of notes written as a single figure called a ligature, and by ...