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Time Before the Metronome: Rhythm, Tactus and Proportion in Renaissance Choral Music
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Time Before the Metronome: Rhythm, Tactus and Proportion in Renaissance Choral Music

Posted by Andrea Angelini 30 August 2026
When we open a choral score today, one of the first things we tend to look for is the tempo indication. Andante, Allegro, or perhaps a precise metronome marking: quarter note…
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Tempo Choral Music XVI
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The Tempo in the Choral Music of the XVI Century

Posted by Andrea Angelini 22 May 2019
I would like to consider how tempo was written about in the XVI century and attempts to estimate the speed of the standard tempo that musicians thought of as unexceptional. The…
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Medieval and Renaissance Polyphony
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Medieval and Renaissance Polyphony

Posted by Andrea Angelini 12 December 2015
In Medieval and Renaissance Polyphony falsetto singing played an important part, probably long before the technique was specifically described.  Jerome of Moravia's 13th-century treatise Discantus positio vulgaris mentions three voice registers:…
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Dossier on the Renaissance Choral Music
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Dossier on the Renaissance Choral Music

Posted by Andrea Angelini 22 March 2015
Dossier: The Renaissance in music occurred between 1450 and 1600. (Some historians place the beginning of the Renaissance as early as 1400.) As in the other arts, the horizons of music were greatly…
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The Twelve Old Modes
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The Twelve Old Modes

Posted by Andrea Angelini 11 August 2014
The first eight modes were designated in the medieval era, as a way to classify pre-existing Gregorian chants. The next four were added by Glareanus in 1547. This gave way to…
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Italian Latin for choirs
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Italian Latin for choirs

Posted by Andrea Angelini 24 July 2014
Italian Latin for Choirs. The Latin language developed as one of the dialects of the Italian Peninsula, in the area around Rome, in pre-Classical times. The other "Italic" dialects died out,…
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Palestrina Missa Papae Marcelli
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Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli

Posted by Andrea Angelini 20 September 2013
The story behind the composition of Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous - and least proven - in music history. As the story goes, the liturgical politics…
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performance practice renaissance music
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Performance Practice of the Renaissance Music

Posted by Andrea Angelini 20 August 2013
Basic Assumptions Not only one way to perform music of this period; much freedom is allowed. Little or no distinction is found between instrumental and vocal styles; they are usually interchangeable.…
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G.P. da Palestrina Missa Brevis
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G.P. Da Palestrina: Missa Brevis

Posted by Andrea Angelini 3 June 2013
The Missa Brevis first appeared in G.P. da Palestrina Third Book of Masses (1570) and in all probability was written about the year 1558. The thematic origin of this mass is…
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Willaert's Ave Maria
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Transcription and Analysis of Willaert’s Ave Maria

Posted by Andrea Angelini 29 May 2013
The period 1550-1560 was a one of incomparable prosperity for Venice and her merchants. The economic boom benefited the publishing sector, bringing a rapid increase in the number of printing businesses.…
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Clemens
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Clemens: Ego flos campi!

Posted by Andrea Angelini 13 May 2013
Jacobus Clemens Non Papa's Marian motet 'Ego flos campi' (I am the flower of the field) can confidently be dated to autumn 1550. Clemens was employed for a few months during the autumn…
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