Works from this musical period are compiled in the Squarcialupi (“squar-chah-LOO-pee”) Codex and the Roman de Fauvel (“ro-MAWN duh fo-VELL”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this style whose name was coined in a treatise that elaborated on mensural notation and the rhythmic modes. Francesco Landini was the most famous Italian composer of this style.
ANSWER: ars nova [accept Italian ars nova; accept Trecento; prompt on new art]
[10h] This composer and author of the 1320 treatise Ars nova notandi composed the polytextual motet “Vos quid admiramini / Gratissima virginis.” Unlike his contemporary Guillaume de Machaut (“gee-YOME duh mah-SHOW”), this composer’s only extant works are motets.
ANSWER: Philippe de Vitry
[10e] Machaut wrote the first attributable polyphonic setting of this text, which contains the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
ANSWER: Mass [or missa or messa; accept Mass Ordinary or Ordinary of the Mass; prompt on lectionary]
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