Tractatus figurarum =Treatise on noteshapes
- 其他作者: Schreur, Philip Evan.
- 出版: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press c1989.
- 稽核項: xii, 122 p. :ill. (some col.) ;24 cm.
- 叢書名: Greek and Latin music theory
- 標題: Music , Musical notation Early works to 1800. , Musical notation , Music Theory -- 500-1400 -- Early works to 1800. , Early works to 1800. , TheoryEarly works to 1800.
- ISBN: 0803242034 , 9780803242036
- 附註: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- 系統號: 005005279
- 資料類型: 圖書
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Notational complexity, or subtilitas, was engendered in the late fourteenth century by a thorough probing of all the rhythmic possibilities within the accepted mensurations. As French and Italian notational practices began to diverge at the beginning of the Ars nova, composers invented new rhythmic symbols?figurae?asøtheir innovations required, and this resulted in a variety of notations that were as confusing to the musician of the day as they are to the modern scholar. In the third quarter of the fourteenth century, a notational system combining elements of the French and Italian systems was put forth in the Tractatus figurarum. This system proposed a standard of set of figurae for simultaneous combinations of any two of the four prolations of the French mensural system. Edmond Coussemaker?s 1869 edition of the Tractatus figurarum, which attributes the treatise to Philippus de Caserta, was based on his knowledge of only four of the fourteen surviving manuscripts. A critical study of all the sources, including the important Newberry Library manuscript, leads to a corrected version of the text and allows the entire system to be resurrected. The critical edition is joined with fully annotated translation on facing pages. An Introduction discusses the authorship and theory of the treatise, as well as placing it within the context of the music theory of the fourteenth century. Full descriptions of all the manuscript sources and four full-color plates of the Newberry Library manuscript are included. The system of the Tractatus figurarum was beautifully creative, but it did not meet with success. Nevertheless, the treatise proves itself invaluable to the study of the Ars subtilior in revealing certain basic notational principles that may be applied to surviving musical compositions, illuminating the notational subtleties in which the music delighted.
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