Pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition
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In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed melody") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.
The plural of this Latin term is cantus firmi, although the corrupt form canti firmi (resulting from the grammatically incorrect treatment of cantus as a second- rather than a fourth-declension noun) can also be found. The Italian is often used instead: canto fermo (and the plural in Italian is canti fermi).
^Ultan, Lloyd (1977). Music Theory: Problems and Practices in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, p.151. ISBN 978-0-8166-0802-7.
a cantusfirmus ("fixed melody") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition. The plural of this Latin term is cantus firmi...
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father, and in so doing learned counterpoint and how to improvise over a cantusfirmus. He is likely to have known Antoine Busnois at the Burgundian court...
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by Jean Molinet and including the funeral text Requiem Aeternam as a cantusfirmus, is in five voices. In the first of its two parts Josquin cleverly mimics...
proportions or other admirable ideas such as using the cantusfirmus in a canon or putting the cantusfirmus in every possible location in the texture. The studies...
indicate that composers of that time did not necessary wrote down their cantusfirmus from memory. Gaudeamus appears also to be the key to assess the work...
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