Search results for "Strophic form" - New World Encyclopedia

musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from high medieval ... from discant (clausula) sections, usually strophic interludes, in a longer ...

century; but Binchois rarely wrote simple strophic form, instead shaping his melody almost independent of the rhyme scheme of the verse. Binchois is best ...

to Italy and Germany a simpler style of music with strophic lines accompanied by a homophonic four part texture that had a set rhythmic pattern under ...

Gospels, he tended to do so in a harmonized form, and it is generally concluded ... of the Septuagint—these quotations form an important early witness ...

ist, etc.), which soon became a standard form. notes. Pachelbel only used the bicinium form in two other pieces. ...

of Western plainsong or plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied ... using 'neumes', an early form of musical notation from which ...