Ars antiqua

Contents: Introduction; Part I Polyphony at Notre Dame of Paris: Leoninus, poet and musician, Craig Wright; The origin and destination of the Magnus Liber Organi, Heinrich Husmann; The geography of the liturgy at Notre-Dame of Paris, Rebecca A. Baltzer. Part II Organum, Genre, Rhythm: Johannes de Garlandia on Organum in Speciale, Edward H. Roesner; The Copula according to Johannes de Garlandia, Jeremy Yudkin; Consonance and rhythm in the organum of the 12th and 13th centuries, Ernest H. Sanders; Who 'made' the Magnus Liber?, Edward H. Roesner; The Vatican organum treatise re-examined, Steven C. Immel; Interrelationships among the alleluias of the Magnus Liber Organi, Norman E. Smith; The abbreviation of the Magnus Liber, William G. Waite. Part III Conductus, Genre, Function, Rhythm: Musical declamation and poetic rhythm in an early layer of Notre Dame conductus, Janet Knapp; Conductus and modal rhythm, Ernest H. Sanders; Aurelianis civitas: student unrest in medieval France and a conductus by Philip the Chancellor, Thomas B. Payne. Part IV Motet, Chronology, Style: Aspects of trope in the earliest motets for the Assumption of the Virgin, Rebecca A. Baltzer; The question of Perotin's oeuvre and dates, Ernest H. Sanders; A small collection of Notre Dame motets ca. 1215-1235, Gordon A. Anderson; The rondeau motet: Paris and Artois in the 13th century, Mark Everist; Beyond glossing: the old made new in Mout me fu grief / Robin m'aime / Portare, Dolores Pesce; Index.