MUSI 2100 Lecture 10: Lecture 10 - Nov 8
26 May 2016
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Average life expectancy: women: 29 years, men: 28 years. The plague (1348-1350: 1/3 of the population of europe dies within 2 years, suddenly there was enough food to feed everyone, increasing prosperity. The hundred years war (1337-1453: france/england, if you didn"t die from the plague, you may have died during the hundred years war. Huge problems in the church: 1309-1417: 2 popes (competing, 1 french pope at avignon, france, 1 italian pope in rome, italy. What happens after the rhythmic modes fall out of practice: change from triple time to duple time. Philippe de vitry (1291-1361: french musician, poet, bishop, treatise: ars nova ca. 2 people against ars nova: jacques de liege and pope john xxii. Propaganda they used to keep triple time: triple time is related to trinity, duple welcomes evil. Speculum musicae c. 1330: ars antiqua versus ars nova. He thinks everything should stay in ars antique style. The ars nova uses imperfection even in counting time .
