Re: Re: Machaut....

>From: "M. Schulter" <mschulter@value.net>
>

>Interestingly, much medieval music based on Pythagorean JI, and also
>Renaissance music based on 5-limit JI (or meantone, a useful
>approximation for keyboards), would be described as strongly
>"contrapuntal" in the sense of having individualized and often
>rhythmically quite independent voices. In fact, with forms such as
>13th-14th century motets, many of the polyphonic songs of Guillaume de
>Machaut (c. 1300-1377), and the technique of the _Ars subtilior_ at
>the end of the 14th century, this horizontal diversity has sometimes
>received so much (quite deserved) attention that the beauties of the
>vertical dimension may be underemphasized.
>
>You could also consider the polyphony of Ockeghem in the 15th century,

>Most appreciatively,
>
>Margo Schulter
>mschulter@value.net
>

Margo, I've been reading your posts, since being on the list, with great
interest.

Above you mention the composers Machaut, Ockeghem. Do recordings exist of
the pieces you describe?
Also, I have been reading "The New Oxford History of Music, vol.2". Is this
Good information?

Thank you very much, George

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