From perfection to mensuration: Franco’s and Vitry’s conception of rhythm

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  • Jurij Snoj

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https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd02.1.06

Keywords:

13th-century music theory, rhythm, perfection, mensuration

Abstract

A comparative reading of Franco’s Ars cantus mensurabilis and the treatise Ars nova, formerly attributed to Philippe de Vitry, illustrates the transition from the ternary, by means of perfect values organized rhythm, to the system of mensurations.

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Jurij Snoj

Znanstvenoraziskovalni center Slovenske akademije znanosti in umetnosti

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Published

2015-06-09

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Snoj, J. (2015). From perfection to mensuration: Franco’s and Vitry’s conception of rhythm. De Musica Disserenda, 2(1), 113–129. https://doi.org/10.3986/dmd02.1.06

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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2006)

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