1 janv. 1300 - Ars Nova, Formes Fixes

Description:

developments in notation allow new rhythmic possibilities

Old Art or Ars Antiqua is wholly (primarily) about rhythmic notation
 Rhythmic Modes (credited largely to Leonin then Perotin)
 Pre-Franconian notation
 Franco of Cologne; defines rhythmic values independent of the modes
 Franco system breaks down as composers want more specific note values

French Ars Nova (New Art) – Philippe de Vitry’s treatise

New rhythmic and metric advances:
music of the 13th century (also sometimes called ars antiqua) was dominated by rhythmic modes in triple division
-binary division are now admitted (so now 2/4, ¾, 6/8, 9/8 all possible)
Creation of the semibreve caudatae
Mood, Time and Prolation
Maxima and Maximodus notes
Isorhythms: Talea and Color


Also more frequent thirds, and parts start and converge in perfect consonances (4ths, 5ths and 8vas) but in between free from harmonic considerations
Also prevalence at this time of isorhythm

Rise of the Formes Fixes:

are the three 14th- and 15th-century French poetic forms: the ballade, rondeau, and virelai. Each was also a musical form, generally a chanson, and all consisted of a complex pattern of repetition of verses and a refrain with musical content in two main sections.

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