EARLY MENSURAL NOTATION

4.3

Find yourself between perfection and ambiguity

Many sciences grapple with ambiguities that are specific to their subject area. An ambiguity distinguishing notational science is that temporal duration depends on the context.

In this video Prof. Dr. Matteo Nanni and Angelika Moths explain the perfection and alteration rules formulated by Franco of Cologne, which are a central feature of the mensural notation from the 13th to the 16th century.

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Copyright: University of Basel

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