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    Ars cantus mensurabilis (Latin for the art of the measurable song) is a music theory treatise from the mid-13th century, c. 1250–1280 written by German...
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    differently shaped notes have entirely different rhythmic values (in the Ars cantus mensurabilis, c. 1280), an innovation which had a massive impact on the...
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    rhythm came from the German theorist Franco of Cologne. In his treatise Ars cantus mensurabilis ("The Art of Mensurable Music"), written around 1280, he...
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  • Franco of Cologne (category Ars antiqua composers)
    alone. The result was Franconian notation, described most famously in his Ars cantus mensurabilis. Some details are known about his life, and more can be inferred...
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    of mensural notation was first described and codified in the treatise Ars cantus mensurabilis ("The art of measured chant") by Franco of Cologne (c. 1280)...
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    Ars nova (Latin for new art) refers to a musical style which flourished in the Kingdom of France and its surroundings during the Late Middle Ages. More...
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  • Black Book of Carmarthen completed Doön de Mayence Franco of Cologne – Ars cantus mensurabilis Jean de Mailly – Chronica universalis Mettensis Old incidents...
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    theorist named Franco of Cologne published a treatise on music entitled Ars cantus mensurabilis. In this treatise, Franco proposed that note values should...
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    codified a system of rhythm notation. He explained this system in his work, Ars Cantus Mensurabilis (“The Art of Measurable Music”), circa 1280. In this system...
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    music theorist Franco of Cologne and summarised as part of his treatise Ars Cantus Mensurabilis (the art of measured chant, or mensural notation). He suggested...
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  • three. The three forms of the cantus are the cantus gestualis (the chanson de geste), the cantus coronatus, and the cantus versiculatus (also called versicularis...
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    Conductus (category Ars antiqua)
    newly invented: "Cantus corona tubs ab aliquibus simplex conductus dictus est…….ex omnibus longis et perfectis efficitur." ("The cantus corona tubs is said...
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    Montpellier Codex (category Ars antiqua)
    consisting of a cantus firmus with three contrapuntal lines above it (ff. 23v-61r) 3. Macaronic double motets, consisting of a cantus firmus with two...
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    of mensural notation was first described and codified in the treatise Ars cantus mensurabilis ("The art of measured chant") by Franco of Cologne (c. 1280)...
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  • Chorus Ars Cantus in 2013. Die Glocken des Strassburger Münsters: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project A Signaler : Concerts de "Ars Cantus"...
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    Miniato al Monte. German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation, in...
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  • Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist) (category Ars antiqua composers)
    mensurabili musica". Frobenius, Wolf (1970). "Zur Datierung von Francos Ars cantus mensurabilis". Archiv für Musikwissenschaft (in German). 27 (2): 122–127...
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    Magnus Liber (category Ars antiqua)
    the wide diffusion through Western Europe of the repertoire later called ars antiqua. Heinrich Husmann summarizes that "these manuscripts, then, do not...
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  • he is best known by his Latinized name. He was the author of the treatise Ars musicae ("The Art of Music") (c. 1300), which describes the functions of...
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    Orfeo, SMw, i (1913), 193–277) Kritische Bemerkungen zum V. Kapitel der 'Ars cantus mensurabilis' des Franko von Köln, KJb, xxi (1908), 39–47 Die Voraussetzungen...
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  • Petrus de Cruce (category Ars antiqua composers)
    theorist Franco of Cologne, who outlined the system in his c. 1260 treatise, Ars cantus mensurabilis (The art of mensurable music). This system recognized the...
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    Ficker Anonymous early 13th century Ars organi Franco of Cologne fl. mid to late 13th century German Ars cantus mensurabilis Franconian Notation Safi...
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    F. Andrieu (category Ars nova composers)
    between the cantus voices, Cantus I beginning with "Armes, amours" and Cantus II with "O flour des flours". The work's four part division—two cantus (with text)...
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  • Miniato al Monte. German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation, in...
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  • may be attributed to him, although it is now lost. Ars motettorum of Petrus de Picardia and Ars musicae mensurabilis secundum Franconem are attributed...
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    Corvus Corax (2005) Cantus Buranus (2005) Cantus Buranus Live in Berlin (2006) Venus Vina Musica (2006) Kaltenberg anno MMVII (2007) Cantus Buranus II (released...
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  • De Mensurabili Musica (category Ars antiqua)
    Cologne Ars cantus mensurabilis Johannes de Garlandia De Mensurabili Musica Related Conductus Discant Rhythmic mode Trouvère Also music theorist* Ars nova...
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  • representing a strophic sequence in Latin which was sung as a descant over a cantus firmus, which typically was a Gregorian chant fragment with different words...
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  • Philippe de Vitry. In particular, the 1974 edition of Franco's influential Ars cantus mensurabilis by Reaney and André Gilles remains the standard critical...
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  • Cologne Ars cantus mensurabilis Johannes de Garlandia De Mensurabili Musica Related Conductus Discant Rhythmic mode Trouvère Also music theorist* Ars nova...
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