Table of Contents

Introduction: Learning, Citation and Authority in Musical Culture before 1600 - Suzannah Clark and Elizabeth Eva Leach
'Naturalis Concordia vocum cum planetis': Conceptualizing the Harmony of the Spheres in the Early Middle Ages - Susan K Rankin
'Auctoritas cereum habet nasum': Boethius, Aristotle, and the Music of the Spheres in the Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth CenturiesCenturies - Gilles Rico
Types and Transmissions of Musical Examples in Franco's Ars cantus mensurabilis musicae - Christian Leitmeir
Ciconia's Citations in Nova musica: New Sources as Biography - Barbara Haggh-Huglo
Fauvel Goes to School - Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Auctoritas and the Motets of Philippe de Vitry - Andrew Wathey
Fire, Desire, Duration, Death: Machaut's Motet 10 - Kevin Brownlee
Machaut Reading Machaut: Self-Borrowing and Reinterpretation in Motets 8 and 21 - Alice V. Clark
Declamatory Dissonance in Machaut - Lawrence Earp
'Qui bien aimme a tart oublie':Machanut's Lay de plour in Context - Virginia Newes
'Imitatio', 'Intertextuality', and Early Music - John Milsom
Apollinis eclipsatur: Foundation of the Collegium musicorum - David R. Howlett
De plus en plus: Numbers, Binchois and Ockeghem - Reinhard Strohm
An English adoption of the Burgundian chanson - Theodor Dumitrescu
Learning to compose in the 1540s: Gioseffo Zarlino's Si bona suscepimus - Cristle Collins Judd
The Eloquence of Silence: Tacet Inscriptions in the Alamire Manuscripts - Bonnie Blackburn

About the Author

ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. ELIZABETH EVA LEACH is Professor of Music at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. Her work focuses on song in the medieval West in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

Reviews

Recommended reading for scholars and students of old music and music theory.
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This collection will stand for many years to come as [a] beacon to future learning.
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