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The principle of selection is, for the editor if not for all the contributors, one of exclusion: not to be considered are court and ecclesiastic centers where sacred and secular polyphony was cultivated, or, in the editor's words, produced, by "a set of compositional techniques used by 'great male composers' to write pre-composed - as opposed to improvised - mensural polyphonic music"(5). D'Accone laments the lack of information concerning the formal musical training of [male] Florentines in this period, even in Cathedral schools and monasteries: "No reports of the typical musical curriculum have survived, but it seems reasonable to assume that solmization and methods of vocal production, the basic principles of mensural notation and perhaps even some elementary counterpoint were taught to youngsters" (1992, 280). He incorporates the most current research on the mensural and proportional notation of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, but the acknowledged influences that suggest the unique turn he has taken are G. |
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