Cadential Syntax and Mode in the Sixteenth-Century Motet: a Theory of Compositional Process and Structure from Gallus Dressler's Praecepta Musicae Poeticae
Description:
Though cadences have long been recognized as an aspect of modality, Gallus Dressler's treatise Praecepta musicae poeticae (1563) offers a new understanding of their relationship to mode and structure. Dressler's comments suggest that the cadences in the exordium and at articulations of the text are "principal" to the mode, shaping the tonal structure of the work.
First, it is necessary to determine which cadences indicate which modes. A survey of sixteenth-century theorists uncovered a striking…
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Date:
May 1996
Creator:
Hamrick, David (David Russell)
Partner:
UNT Libraries