Cette polyphonie à 5 voix a été ajoutée au Contreplat supérieur du manuscrit 980 de la Bibliothèque municipale de Troyes.
Bien que le texte soit écrit trois fois de suite, je n'arrive pas à le lire correctement !
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Thank you very much for this analysis!!!
Peter Urquhart said:
The three lines defined by the three clefs work together polyphonically, as a 1st species counterpoint exercise in two voices. The C5 cleffed line is a cantus firmus (thus the similarity to the introit), while the two C1 lines are counterpoints against it, either one (low) or the other (high). All-three-together does not work because of parallel unisons, parallel 5ths, and dissonances between the upper two lines. For the most part the counterpoints conform with our modern expectations, but with glitches at semibreve 14 (higher counterpoint) and 17 (lower counterpoint). They even create a cadence at the end, of a sixth moving to the octave. -- Peter Urquhart
BRAVO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paul Shannon said:
The C5 voice seems to quote the end of any 'Gaudeamus' introit: "et collaudant filium dei".