In the early fourteenth century, musicians in France and later Italy established new traditions of secular and sacred polyphony. This ars nova, or 'new art', popularized by theorists such as Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris was the among the first of many later movements to establish the music of the present as a clean break from the past. The twenty-seven articles brought together here reflect the broad methodological and chronological range of scholarly inquiry on the ars nova.
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In the early fourteenth century, musicians in France and later Italy established new traditions of secular and sacred polyphony. This ars nova, or 'new art', popularized by theorists such as Philippe de Vitry and Johannes de Muris was the among the first of many later movements to establish the music of the present as a clean break from the past. The twenty-seven articles brought together here reflect the broad methodological and chronological range of scholarly inquiry on the ars nova.
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