Form, Counterpoint, and Meaning in a Fourteenth-Century French Courtly Song

This chapter presents an analysis of Guillaume de Machaut's balade De petit po (B18). Taking an understanding of medieval counterpoint as its starting point, the analysis treats the two central contrapuntal voices first before examining the response to these voices provided variously by the (mu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leach, E
Format: Book section
Published: Oxford University Press 2012