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8 - Affordances of Four- and Five-Voice Texture

from Part III - Fundaments of the Art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2024

Jesse Rodin
Jesse Rodin
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Stanford University, California
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Textural contrast might well drive an esthetics of opposition more than any other compositional technique. Chapter 8 asks what is new in the fifteenth century about vocal ranges and scoring, and how composers manipulate changes in texture to pull back the throttle or produce calculated bursts of intensity.

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musical style and poeticstexturevocal rangesLeonel PowerAntoine Busnoysfour-voice texturefive-voice texture
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The Art of Counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin , pp. 157 - 166
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2024

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