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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 subsequent...
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    mensural notation was first described and codified in the treatise Ars cantus mensurabilis ("The art of measured chant") by Franco of Cologne (c. 1280). A...
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  • Franco of Cologne (category Ars antiqua composers)
    Gilbert; Gilles, André (eds.). Franconis de Colonia Ars cantus mensurabilis. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. Cambridge: American Institute of Musicology...
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    named Franco of Cologne published a treatise on music entitled Ars cantus mensurabilis. In this treatise, Franco proposed that note values should be set...
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    came from the German theorist Franco of Cologne. In his treatise Ars cantus mensurabilis ("The Art of Mensurable Music"), written around 1280, he describes...
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    system of rhythm notation. He explained this system in his work, Ars Cantus Mensurabilis (“The Art of Measurable Music”), circa 1280. In this system, the...
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  • Book of Carmarthen completed Doön de Mayence Franco of Cologne – Ars cantus mensurabilis Jean de Mailly – Chronica universalis Mettensis Old incidents in...
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    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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    al Monte. German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation, in which...
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    mensural notation was first described and codified in the treatise Ars cantus mensurabilis ("The art of measured chant") by Franco of Cologne (c. 1280). Mensural...
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  • Johannes de Garlandia (music theorist) (category Ars antiqua composers)
    Garlandia, Johannes de. "De mensurabili musica". Frobenius, Wolf (1970). "Zur Datierung von Francos Ars cantus mensurabilis". Archiv für Musikwissenschaft...
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  • into three categories: musica vulgaris ("music of the people"), musica mensurabilis ("measured music"), and musica ecclesiastica ("church music"). He also...
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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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    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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    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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  • Petrus de Cruce (category Ars antiqua composers)
    Franco of Cologne, who outlined the system in his c. 1260 treatise, Ars cantus mensurabilis (The art of mensurable music). This system recognized the double-long...
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  • al Monte. German musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes Ars Cantus Mensurabilis, in which he advances a new theory of musical notation, in which...
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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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  • De Mensurabili Musica (concerning measured music) is a musical treatise from the early 13th century (medieval period, c. 1240) and is the first of two...
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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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  • attributed to him, although it is now lost. Ars motettorum of Petrus de Picardia and Ars musicae mensurabilis secundum Franconem are attributed to him by...
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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 al-Din...
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  • HMT, 1.–16. Auslieferung (1972–1989) Zur Datierung von Francos Ars cantus mensurabilis, in AfMw 27, 1970, pp. 122–127 Über das Zeitmaß Augenblick in Adornos...
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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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  • ——; Gilles, André, eds. (1974). Franconis de Colonia Ars cantus mensurabilis. Corpus mensurabilis musicae. Vol. 18. Cambridge: American Institute of Musicology...
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  • 1322), Musica speculativa secundum Boetium (1323), Libellus cantus mensurabilis (c. 1340), and Ars contrapuncti (post 1340) (all dates are suggested dates...
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  • Pérotin (category Ars antiqua composers)
    de Garlandia, whose De mensurabili provided a theoretical basis, for Notre Dame polyphony is essentially musica mensurabilis, music that is measured...
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    December 18, 2005), (subscription access) Johannes de Muris. Libellus cantus mensurabilis. CS III, pp. 48, 53. Apel, The Notation of Polyphonic Music, 900–1600...
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    Grimace (composer) (category Ars nova composers)
    century France. The work is for four parts – two cantus parts, a contratenor, and a tenor – and the cantus voices share text, while the contratenor and tenor...
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