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Discantare Super Planum Cantum

Niels Berentsen

Today’s performances of medieval polyphony have a lot in common with those of other ‘classical’ or ‘early’ music. Ensembles perform pieces written by known or lesser known composers, which the listener can revisit by listening to recordings or reading a score.

Keywords: composition, counterpoint, improvisation, musical education, performance practice, renaissance music, voice

Between Oral and Written Tradition

Patrizia Bovi

What kinds of vocal music were not typically transmitted in written musical notation? Can specific ‘lost’ song forms - siciliane, giustiniane, le Grechesche, gli stili “regionali“ nel canto del quattrocento - be more precisely identified than they have been until now, both in musicological research and in concert performance?

Keywords: canterini, giustiniane, medieval italy, quattrocento, traditional singing, voice