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1076: 27: 1200: 325: 267:. This is born out by the differing versions of the discantus parts".  Husmann also notes that a comparison of the repertory contained in the three manuscripts shows there "are a great many pieces common to all three sources" and that "the most reasonable attitude is obviously to consider the pieces in common to all three sources as the original body, consequently as the true 455:
style, the tenor uses rhythmic patterns as well as the upper part". These sections of polyphony were substituted into longer organa. The extant manuscripts provide a number of notational challenges for modern editors since they contain only the polyphonic sections to which the monophonic chant must
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of Notre Dame cathedral represents a transitional time for Western culture. This time of change coincided with the architectural innovation that produced the structure of the Cathedral itself (earliest start of construction in 1163). A handful of surviving manuscripts demonstrate the evolution of
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most likely to have originated in Paris and is known today from only a few surviving manuscripts and fragments, and there are records of at least seventeen lost versions. Today its contents can be inferred from the three surviving major manuscripts:
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but careful study has revealed many details regarding origin and development. "Evidence of lost Notre Dame manuscripts, including the names of their owners, is plentiful indeed", tracing back to year 1456 when manuscript
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that was used at the cathedral every day throughout the year. While the concept of combining voices in harmony to enrich plainsong chant was not new, there lacked the established and codified
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one voice sang the notes of the Gregorian chant elongated to enormous length called the tenor (from Latin 'to hold'), but was also known as the
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but rather enlarged forms of it, differing from each other. In fact, these manuscripts embody different stylistic developments of the
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Catalogues referring to other lost copies attest to the wide diffusion through Western Europe of the repertoire later called
1503: 431:, the "vining voice") were notated above the tenor, with quicker lines moving and weaving together, a style also known as 301:. This 'by no means confirms that PĂ©rotin himself was active at Notre Dame, or anywhere else in Paris for that matter'. 141:
around the end of the twelfth and beginning of the thirteenth centuries, though it is well agreed upon by scholars that
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contributed a bulk of the organum in the repertoire. This large body of repertoire is known from references to a
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Heinrich Husmann summarizes that "these manuscripts, then, do not represent any more the original state of the
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had one sole contributor, though it is noted by scholars that large parts were composed by
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itself, particularly in the field of composition mentioned by Anonymous IV, the
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The rhythm of twelfth-century polyphony : its theory and practice
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techniques to enable the rational construction of such pieces.
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is regarded as one of the earliest collections of polyphony.
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These three manuscripts date from later than the original
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The innovations at Notre Dame consisted of a system of
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of the later thirteenth and fourteenth centuries (see
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Music and ceremony at Notre Dame of Paris, 500-1550
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Index

Illustration at beginning of manuscript F of the Magnus liber
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digitalcommons.cedarville.edu/sing_polyphony/2
Latin
medieval music
organum
Notre-Dame school
Paris
Leonin
Johannes de Garlandia
English
Anonymous IV
Pluteo 29.1
Biblioteca Medicea-Laurenziana, Florence
Piero de' Medici
Herzog August Bibliothek (Ducal Library)
priory
ars antiqua
clausula
LĂ©onin
PĂ©rotin
William Waite
Hans Tischler

early music
polyphonic
plainchant
musical theory
Western music
plainchant

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