The art of counterpoint from Du Fay to Josquin - Rodin, Jesse 19XX- (Cambridge University Press, 2025)
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Part I. Starting Points. An Esthetics of Opposition that Privileges Intensification, Deintensification, and Dramatic Arcs - and What Came Before and After ; A Discursive Vacuum -- Part II. Tinctoris's Varietas. Defining Terms. Varietas as an Esthetic Paradigm ; Tinctoris Knew the Repertoire ; Pieces Exemplifying Varietas -- Part III. Fundaments of the Art. The Parameters ; Affordances of Four- and Five-Voice Texture ; Sacred Genres ; The Formes Fixes -- Part IV. The Art in Action. Some Songs by Du Fay ; Peaks, Valleys, and Flow in Okeghem's Sacred Music ; Busnoys, Josquin, and the Hurricane Osanna ; Seven Awesome Endings ; Pater noster across the Esthetic Divide ; The Art of Counterpoint in Performance -- Appendices. 1. Tinctoris's Rules of Counterpoint ; Rough Guide to the Late Fifteenth-Century Cyclic Mass