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Tactus, mensuration and rhythm in Renaissance music /

Title:
Tactus, mensuration and rhythm in Renaissance music /
Author:
DeFord, Ruth I., author.
Format:
Book
Institution:
New England Conservatory
Contents:
Theory. Sources of information ; Principles of mensural notation ; Definitions and descriptions of tactus ; Tactus and rhythm ; Tactus and signs in fifteenth-century music theory ; Tactus and signs in sixteenth-century music theory ; Tactus and tempo -- Practice. The songs of Du Fay ; The L'homme armâe masses of Ockeghem, Busnoys, and Josquin ; The five- and six-voice motets of Josquin ; The Choralis Constantinus of Isaac ; The masses of Palestrina ; The madrigals of Rore ; Popular songs and dances.
Online access:
No online access
Library holdings:
New England Conservatory Spaulding Library
ML174.D44 T23 2015 – Available