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Desmond, Karen, Hopkins, Emily, Howes, Samuel and Cumming, Julie E. (2020) Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, ca. 1300–1350. Music Theory Online, 26 (4). ISSN 1067-3040
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Abstract
This article analyzes the distribution of three- and four-voice vertical sonorities in a repertoire of French ars antiqua and ars nova motets. Rather than selecting the subjectively important sonorities within a piece—an effort that would rely on the analyst’s judgment of the overarching contrapuntal goals—this study uses computational musicological methods to analyze and categorize the distribution of sonorities across individual motets and groups of motets that occur at regular time intervals across the course of the compositions. This study offers some preliminary observations and conclusions about sonority usage in the late medieval French motet repertoire.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | medieval motets; sonority; digital musicology; Montpellier Codex; Roman de Fauvel; Ivrea Codex; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Arts,Celtic Studies and Philosophy > Music |
| Item ID: | 19862 |
| Identification Number: | 10.30535/mto.26.4.2 |
| Depositing User: | Karen Desmond |
| Date Deposited: | 22 May 2025 13:53 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Music Theory Online |
| Publisher: | Society for Music Theory |
| Refereed: | Yes |
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| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/19862 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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