Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, c. 1300-1350
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The present essay analyzes the distribution of three- and four-voice vertical sonorities in a repertoire of French ars antiqua a nd ars nova motets. Rather than selecting the subjectively important sonorities within a piece--an effort that would rely on the analyst’s judgment of the overarching contrapuntal goals--this study uses computational musicological methods to analyze and categorize the distribution of sonorities across individual motets and groups of motets at specific metrical offsets. This study offers some preliminary observations and conclusions about sonority usage in the late medieval French motet repertoire.
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