The use of accidental inflections and the musical system in Josquin's period, ca. 1480-1520.
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Title
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The use of accidental inflections and the musical system in Josquin's period, ca. 1480-1520.
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Identifier
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AAI9130378
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identifier
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9130378
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Creator
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Stern, David.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Saul Novack
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Date
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1991
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music
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Abstract
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This study is based on mensural sources and lute intabulations from Josquin's period, and on Renaissance theory, It shows that the theorists generally considered musica vera or recta to consist of the elements found in the diatonic gamut (G-e{dollar}\sp2{dollar}, with either B{dollar}\natural{dollar} or B{dollar}\flat{dollar}), and musica ficta to consist of inflections not found in the gamut or any system with a signature containing sharps or more than one flat. A detailed examination of the rules governing accidentals and their application in practicals sources is given. The sources show that specific passages often were inflected in different ways by different musicians, and that there was a wide-ranging use of imperfect melodic and vertical melodic and vertical intervals and cross relations. Furthermore, imitation, canon, and ostinato figures normally occurred on diatonic steps, and there was no tradition of using accidentals to render each statement intervallically exact; in fact, there were a number of cases found in which the use of accidentals rendered the statements less exact than they would have been if left uninflected. Finally, the range of accidentals available within the musical system was explored; it was found that the available accidentals found in the sources was two flats and three sharps beyond the key signature (thus B{dollar}\flat{dollar}, E{dollar}\flat{dollar}, F{dollar}\sharp{dollar}, C{dollar}\sharp{dollar}, and G{dollar}\sharp{dollar} in the system without key signature, E{dollar}\flat{dollar}, A{dollar}\flat{dollar}, B{dollar}\natural{dollar}, F{dollar}\sharp{dollar}, and C{dollar}\sharp{dollar} in the system with B{dollar}\flat{dollar} signature, etc.).
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
