'COORDINATION IN RHYTHM' – MODAL NOTATION

3.7

Transcribing modal notation

Now it’s time to find out how to transcribe medieval notation.

In this video we will give you some general hints about the basic technique of transcribing music and explain the main issues of modal notation that you will meet whenever you transcribe this kind of notation. We will practise this upon the three-voice clausula Go from the manuscript Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.1, fol. 11r.

Facsimile of the clausula "Go"

© Firenze Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.1, fol. 11r

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