Musica Ficta
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Part 1 of my Doctor of Music Thesis (University of Alberta, Canada, 1999). Intended for those less familiar with the theories behind central Renaissance "Musica Ficta".
This dissertation focuses on the medieval and Renaissance understandings of musica ficta with respect to considering its repertorial and theoretical contexts, from the ninth to the sixteenth century. Contrary to common understandings... more
Die vorliegende, vom Kyrie I der Missa Sine Nomine ausgehende Untersuchung widmet sich bemerkenswerten Eigenarten der Kompositionstechnik Alexander Agricolas (1446–1506), dem schon die unmittelbaren Nachfahren bescheinigten, Dinge »auf... more
_Music in Renaissance Cities and Courts_, ed. Jessie Ann Owens and Anthony M. Cummings (Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 1996), pp. 215-226. Explores contemporary lute intabulations in order to formulate practical guidelines for the... more
Contrapuntal passages in Franco-Flemish music around 1500 that suggest the use of forbidden intervals such as augmented unisons, diminished octaves and fifths, are not uncommon. These intervals are forbidden primarily by our... more
Director del taller “Taller vocal de interpretación de música barroca: las Vísperas de Monteverdi desde las fuentes originales”, (Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, campus “Antonio Mahado” de Baeza, del 3 al 5 de diciembre de 2018),... more
Unpublished paper, originally presented at the 14th Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, King's College, London, 1986. Revised version presented at the Southeast Chapter of the American Musicological Society, Greensboro... more
The present study deals with a hermeneutic reconstruction of the issue of partium toni discourse in Marchetto da Padova’s treatise Lucidarium in arte musicae planae. Contemporary propositions of the issue, according to Marchetto divided... more
Submitted to the Journal of the Alamire Foundation The basis of the article was a talk that aimed to describe the issue of musica ficta in ten minutes. The author avoids use of the term "musica ficta" when possible, because of the... more
[ENGLISH — main text in Portuguese] The solmization procedures applied in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, which produced the modern solfege, served not only as means for a first contact between the performer and the musical works, but... more
Como extensão de um trabalho anterior, a análise de inflexões ficta e recta em Magnum haereditatis mysterium de Willaert foi realizada com base em convenções de clausulae cadenciais, causa necessitatis e causa pulchritudines sobre... more