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Die Handschrift Hs. Mus. 18746 in 5 Stimmbüchern, datiert 1523 und heute in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek, ist die früheste aktuell bekannte Sammlung ausschließlich 5 - stimmiger weltlicher Musik, dennoch relativ unbeachtet.... more
This article stems from a panel we jointly convened at the i-Docs 2018 Symposium, where we presented a series of provocations with a view to generating a new theoretical framework for i-docs. These provocations were inspired by all... more
Bu çalışma ile hedeflenen; yöredeki çok seslilik unsurlarını tespit ve analiz etmektir. Özellikle bu çalışmadan elde edilen sonuçların modernite kavramının ülkemizi etkilediği zamanlardan bu yana tartışıla gelen çok seslilik... more
Wayne Vucinic Book Prize 2007, "for the most important contribution to Russian, Eurasian, and East European studies in any discipline of the humanities or social sciences." Endorsement by Slavoj Zizek: "Alexei Yurchak's Everything... more
När jag har gjort en fältstudie som handlar om dialog under känslosamma omständigheter där människor har skrattat, gråtit, tänkt och samtalat tillsammans, hur kan jag då skriva om detta utan att texten känns platt, linjär och förutsägbar?... more
Complete transcription and reconstruction of the canon a13 for Christ and his Twelve Disciples on the Apostles Creed. This piece is found in both the Eton Choirbook and the Baldwin Manuscript. This edition contained both the fully... more
Critical literacy practices have moved their interest from Freirean binary analyses (e.g. oppressor versus oppressed) to more complex perspectives, where in a text the author/speaker is (dis)aligned with different discourse communities.... more
The goal of this article is a discourse analysis of the architectonic integrity of polyphonic work on the texture and thematic levels, in conditions of imitative and non-imitative types of polyphonic thinking. The discursive approach in... more
PhD dissertation abstract and index. Università degli Studi di Pavia, 13.02.2020.
URL : http://revueties.org/document/index.php?/ties/la-voix-dans-tous-ses-etats/660-polyphonie-litteraire-et-imaginaires-de-la-voix-spectrale-chez-fedor-dostoievski Cet article a pour but de replacer la poétique de la polyphonie, propre... more
Introduction to: Missa Miserere michi Domine, Anon. [Mass a8 in Munich Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Ms 6], edition by Francis & Michael Bevan (2014). [For this edition, see polyphonydatabase.com]
This work's aim is to analyze polyphony in The Brothers Karamazov, a novel written by Fyodor Dostoevsky, focusing on ideological confrontations that take place between characters, especially between the Karamazov's family.... more
The goal of this work was the study of structural aspects in polyphonic pieces by Adrian Willaert, aiming to identify a possible relationship between his vocal and instrumental works, namely the moteto and ricercare genres. Among the... more
""Counterpoint is a structural form in music which, in the high modernist era was mapped onto literature with differing degrees of success. It has also been the basis for a model of theoretical criticism, as critics such as Bakhtin and... more
A transcription of Leonin's "Viderunt Omnes" (c. mid to late 12th century), showing excerpts of the original two sources with comparative variations and a modern transcription. For a recording and score-video see the link below:... more
The article analyzes the media logic of urban acts of communication in early modern German cities. As is demonstrated by Cologne and Hamburg in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the growing use of print (particularly... more
A Prolation Canon for three voices by Johannes Ciconia (c. 1370 – 1412). this piece is a unique example of irregular prolation from the French Ars Subtilior. Utilizing a 4:3:1 proportion, this piece creates an interesting rhythmic phasing... more
This brief summary updates the definition of 3 main types of musical texture: heterophony, polyphony, and homophony - and explains why they are all unsuitable for the earliest phylogenetic forms of musicking, as described by the theory of... more
A transcription of Machaut's Rondeau 14, "Ma fin est ma commencement" ("my end is my beginning"). The score is rendered to be read both forwards and backwards as necessitated by the music. For an animated video of the score with a... more
A critical and performance edition of Alexander Agricola's chanson "De tous biens plaine" for three voices. The cantus firmus of the tenor is extracted from Hayne Van Ghizeghem's (c. 1445 – 1476 to 1497) eponymous chanson. The text of... more
Background. As is known, the content of the traditional systematic polyphony course, based on its dichotomous division into strict and free writing, mainly relies on the musical styles of Renaissance, Baroque and the classical-romantic... more
Dans le chapitre « Les relations de temps dans le verbe français », Benveniste organise les temps verbaux de la langue française en deux systèmes distincts auxquels il fait correspondre deux plans différents d'énonciation: celui de... more
The characteristic properties of the non-imitative polyphony are compared with the imitative one in the aspect of musical logic. It is established that imitative polyphony in its main historical genre-compositional manifestations as a... more
Magnus, a novel from Sylvie Germain published in 2005, is a narration made up of several marks of hybridity – structural, generic and discursive hybridity. Those marks are not simply formal but emphasize the necessity of a true presence... more
The Varthamanappusthakam is the description of the travel to Rome performed by Paremmackal Thoma Kathanar and Kariyattil Joseph Malpan both of whom were members of the Kerala Nazrani Church. This is one of the early travelogues in the... more
A non-barred critical transcription of Alexander Agricola's motet-chanson "Belles sur toutes - Tota pulchra es" from Florence, Bibliotea del Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, MS 2439 ff. 63v-64r. For a recording of the music with a... more
Performance score of Francesco Landini's madrigal, " Musica Son - Già Furon - Ciascun Vuol" transcribed from the Squarcialupi Codex (121v-122r). For a video of the score with a performance see the link below.... more
Se aborda el estudio y edición crítica de una extensa Salve Regina a cuatro voces conservada en la Catedral de Puebla, que ha sido atribuida a Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611), pero que no coincide con ninguna de las versiones... more
Edizione critica dei 16 Balletti a tre voci (trascritti dall'edizione a stampa di Anversa, 1631). Raffinate e giocose miniature sonore dedicate all’intrattenimento di corte, i balletti di Gastoldi erano pensati “per cantare, sonare et... more
This is a threefold transcription of Baude Cordier's "circle canon," two versions in rondeau form and one in perpetual canon. Included with the music transcriptions are full translations from Medieval French to English of all the... more
En términos generales, los estudios teatrales tradicionales afirman que una de las características distintivas del género texto dramático es que se trata de un "discurso sin sujeto" (cf. entre otros, De Toro, 2008; Helbo, 2012; Ubersfeld,... more
Full title: 'A Little Known Part-Book from Toledo. Music by Morales, Guerrero, Jorge de Santa María, Alonso Lobo and Others in Barcelona, Instituto Espanõl de Musicología, Fondo Reserva, Ms. 1'. Published in: Anuario Musical 65 (2010),... more
This is a comparative manuscript edition of Gherardello da Firenze's (c. 1350) caccia "Tosto che l'alba". Herein you can see the difference between the piece's three available sources listed below. For a performable realization of this... more
Caryl Phillips' multi-voiced texts have often been studied through the lens of Bakhtinian polyphony. In this essay I focus on the volume of fictionalized biographies Foreigners: Three English Lives (2007) to demonstrate that polyphony in... more
With the emergence of the legend of Saint Blaise, who protected the people of Dubrovnik against the Venetian menace, the city of Dubrovnik has been continuously organizing a feast in Saint Blaise's honour on the 3rd of February of each... more
A pedagogical transcription of Richard Sampson's (attr.) motet in double canon, "Salve radix," written to celebrate the union of Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon and the birth of their daughter, Mary. For a video with recording... more