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The Tempo in the Choral Music of the XVI Century

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

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

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…