Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - John Dunstaple, Guillaume Du Fay, Johannes Tinctoris
1 Mar 2013
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Trusted greek sources about music having the power to win battles. Wanted to figure out what was wrong with music and how they could improve it to be like the music of the ancients. In the shadow of the great music of "the ancients. " Great music is heard, not simply believed. Music is to be judged empirically in musical terms, judge it as "good" if you like it, not because someone else simply tells you it is. If the ear can"t tell that the third isn"t a consonance, then it should be one. Changed ratios of 81:64 to 80:64 = 5:4 and 32:37 to 30:25 = 6:5. The new sound: contenence anglois english guise. Made up of a lot of 3rds (not 4ths and 5ths) From england, works in france for most of his life. Writes about sonority. eg. quam pulchra es (feb 13 listening)
