Accent, Meter, and Rhythm in Medieval Treatises "De rithmis"
Margot Fassler
During the second half of twelfth and beginning thirteenth centuries, composers at Cathedral 164 Notre Dame in Paris created a new style polyphony.2 As developed, it required type notation that could indicate duration more accurately. rhythmic its grew complicated, body theoretical literature evolved to explain them.3 It was only after had developed first theorists began describe style, surviving manuscripts were written.4 Unfortunately, then, we have no from crucial decades between 1160 1 230, time which witness slow evolution polyphony,
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