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	Cantus firmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In music, a cantus firmus ("fixed song") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition, often set apart by being played in long notes.
		Composition using a cantus firmus was a common technique in Medieval music, forming the basis of organum as well as 13th- and 14th-century motets.
		Setting the cantus firmus was the essential pedagogical tool in Gradus ad Parnassum by Johann Joseph Fux and formed the basis of teaching his species counterpoint.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cantus_firmus (629 words)

	Missa Hercules Dux Ferrariae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In each instance, the cantus firmus begins on the final d and moves to the confinal a and then to the final d displaced by an octave.
		The cantus firmus is almost exclusively in the tenor with four exceptions, once at the beginning of the mass in the Kyrie in the soprano, once in the Sanctus in the alto and twice in the superius in the last section of the Agnus Dei.
		Although interesting, both the retrograde and diminution of the cantus firmus was not an uncommon compositional technique.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Missa_Hercules_Dux_Ferrariae (1371 words)

	Chamber Choir Cantus Firmus, Copenhagen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Danish Chamber Choir Cantus Firmus was founded in 1980 and consists of 25 singers, many of whom were educated at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Musicology.
		Cantus Firmus has also done the first full performance of Tomas Luis de Victorias "Missa pro Defunctus" in Denmark (broadcast on DR P2) and the first dramatic performance of Hugo Distlers "Totentanz" in Denmark (likewise broadcast on DR P2).
		Cantus Firmus exploits its versatility as a means to let different concert tasks and works illustrate and affect each other.
	www.cantusfirmus.dk /english.htm (363 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Cantus Firmus
		The cantus firmus technique of composition began with the earliest forms of European polyphony and remained popular through the Renaissance, and is found most commonly in motets and in sections of the Mass.
		This means that the cantus firmus becomes a very audible part of the listener's experience of the piece rather than a partially buried foundation -- very different from the medieval use of cantus firmus that you heard in the piece by Léonin.
		A cantus firmus is a melody borrowed from one musical source and adapted as the basis for a new polyponic composition, usually a motet, or a section of the Mass.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/cantus.html (883 words)

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		Because the cantus firmus is divided into three movements, each movement has its own mood and sounds distinct from the others; the tune is not simply repeated for each movement.
		This same cantus firmus is then repeated later in the contratenor voice in bars 26 to 36 in rhythm twice the length of before.
		Among this general cantus firmus structure, rhythm and patterns are used in all of the voices that are reminiscent of the secular tune.
	www-scf.usc.edu /~marinaha/MUHL/MUHLDirk1.doc (2115 words)

	Cantus Firmus
		The cantus firmus is traditionally written in alto clef, a member of the movable clef family known as "C" clefs.
		The cantus firmus begins and ends on the tonic of the key or the final of the mode.
		The cantus firmus should have a climax on a high note, which should be melodically consonant with the first and final notes (i.e.
	www.listeningarts.com /music/general_theory/species/cf.htm (716 words)

	Josquin des Prez and Lutoslawski
		The first appearance of the cantus firmus in the mass is in the superius, not in the tenor, which additionally exposes the cantus firmus and stresses the importance of the "Duke" material.
		The treatment of the cantus firmus melody in Josquins' Mass may be considered as a hidden statement of the relationship between Josquin and Ercole.
		The cantus firmus always appears in its complete form; moreover, it is usually presented in a superior register, or in a more pronounced aural shape than the material of the remaining vocal parts.
	www.usc.edu /dept/polish_music/harley/tess.html (2184 words)

	HOASM: Spiritual Concerto and Church Cantata
		The first course, that of cantus firmus, treatment, was taken by the organists and cantors, the second by Schütz and his Italianate school.
		The most conservative of the cantus firmus compositions was the chorale motet which continued the polyphonic chorale settings of the renaissance.
		Although the chorales were not strictly biblical in their texts they were regarded as the pillars of the liturgy and thus paralleled the liturgical function of the Gregorian chant in the Catholic church.
	www.hoasm.org /VIF/VIFSpiritConcChCan.html (1932 words)

	A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons by Friedrich J. Lehmann
		Two-part counterpoint comprises a cantus firmus and a counterpoint.
		Six notes may be written to one of the cantus firmus, as in Fig.
		Now, the cantus firmus may be harmonized at pleasure, the only restriction being that any tone foreign to the chord with which it enters must be treated as a dissonance.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/16342/16342-h/16342-h.htm (8380 words)

	Mass Settings of Heinrich Isaac
		Missa Quant j'ay au cueur, 4 vv; cantus firmus is tenor of rondeau by Busnois; head-motive from soprano and tenor of rondeau; AMM 10
		Missa solemnis, 6 vv; cantus firmi from chants of the ordinary, mainly in soprano and tenor; OO 1
		"Bruder Konrad, der lag siech" is the cantus firmus of Agnues Dei III.
	web.bsu.edu /jcarter2/Isaac.htm (1391 words)

	Lesson 4 for "Form & Analysis" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The "firm" in cantus firmus implies that this preexisting melody is not to be toyed with.
		The cantus firmus may be segmented, however, and passed from voice to voice.
		Cookie with Crumbs: Here one voice states the cantus firmus in long notes, with the remaining voices gobbling fragments (crumbs) of the melody in imitative counterpoint.
	jan.ucc.nau.edu /~tas3/mus303/quads.html (241 words)

	cantus firmus mass (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The cantus firmus mass is a mass in which every section was composed using the same pre-existing meody as the contrapuntal foundation.
		In the early masses, the cantus firmus was found in the tenor, often written in long notes and varied isorhythmically.
		It was used as a cantus firmus by many composers in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
	home.uchicago.edu /~atterlep/Music/cantusfirmus.htm (197 words)

	Into to Species Counterpoint (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In species couterpoint exercises, one melody, usually called a cantus firmus, is composed for you, and you must compose a second, complementary melody.
		Cantus Firmus-- a pre-existing melody consisting entirely of whole notes.
		Species--refers to the rhythmic relationship between cantus firmus and counterpoint.
	www.duke.edu /web/mus118/sc-sum.htm (327 words)

	Cantus Firmus Surselva - Choir
		Cantus Firmus Surselva is the choir that Clau Scherrer founded with male and female singers from the whole of Grisons in 1999.
		Although the Cantus Firmus Choir has only been in existence for a few years, it already has established a very good reputation for itself throughout Switzerland.
		In the year 2004 the Cantus Firmus Surselva was awarded the prize of the CRR (Cuminanza Radio Rumantsch).
	www.guildmusic.com /artists/cantusfs.htm (220 words)

	Cantus Firmus - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Cantus Firmus - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Cantus Firmus (Latin, “fixed song”), in early music and renaissance music, a pre-existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition.
		Counterpoint is often taught by several species, or types of situation, a method perfected by the German composer Johann Fux in 1725 in a text that...
	au.encarta.msn.com /Cantus_Firmus.html (124 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Counterpoint
		The desire for harmony, that is, the simultaneous sounding with the cantus firmus, tenor, or theme, of one or more voices on different intervals, first found expression in the so-called diaphony or "Organum" of Hucbald (840-930 or 932).
		All these sporadic attempts at polyphony culminated, in the fourteenth century, in the addition of different melodies to the cantus firmus in accordance with well-formulated laws of counterpoint which are still valid at the present day.
		The polyphony for four, five, six, eight, or more parts, produced in the century, with its prevailing consonance and unifying and life-giving principle, the cantus firmus (generally a Gregorian melody), is, in a sense, an image of the congregation of the Church itself.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04436a.htm (516 words)

	Cantus Firmus vocal octet - Mondovì (CN) - Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cantus Firmus vocal octet - Mondovì (CN) - Homepage
		"Cantus Firmus" male octet, born in Mondovì in 1989, started originally to study and perform renaissance polyphony, during the years has enlarged his repertory including classical, spiritual-gospel, jazz and pop compositions mostly a cappella from 4 to 8 voices.
		“Cantus Firmus” produced and published three CDs: the first in 1998, with a selection of gospel and spiritual arranged by the conductor, the second in 2004, with a program of traditional christmas songs and the third in 2005, with pop and jazz arrangements.
	www.cantusfirmus.it /index_en.php (124 words)

	The Sofia Open Content Initiative - Musicianship II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This chant phrase is called the "cantus firmus" (sung foundation) and is made up of whole notes.
		The cantus firmus is usually written in the meter of 4/2.
		There is one whole note in the counterpoint for each whole note in the cantus firmus.
	sofia.fhda.edu /gallery/musicianship/resources-overview.html (549 words)

	PROGRESSIVEWORLD.NET: REVIEWS BY TOM KARR
		Yet the most compelling moments on Cantus Firmus come when the band takes a few steps away from the shadow of the Giant.
		On Cantus Firmus the group's main songwriter (and keyboardist and principal lead vocalist) Henry Ptak continues in much the same vein as on the bands self-titled debut disc.
		Cantus Firmus is much more than I had hoped for and as such I give it my highest recommendation.
	www.progressiveworld.net /advent2.html (765 words)

	(cf.txt) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By tradition, the cantus firmus does not contain the following melodic intervals, in part because they are hard to sing: intervals larger than an octave dissonant leaps, such as the tritone chromatic half steps
		At the end of a cantus firmus, the approach to the final tone must be by step -- usually descending by step.
		Balance: A cantus firmus is in a state of balance when no single element predominates to such an extent that the stability of the whole is impaired.
	www.duke.edu /web/mus118/cf.htm (650 words)

	Cantus Firmus - encouraging creativity in worship through music and the arts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cantus Firmus - encouraging creativity in worship through music and the arts
		Cantus Firmus Trust supports the ministry of Richard Hubbard.
		He is a Director of Music and Worship Foundation, and a Lecturer in Music at London School of Theology.
	www.cantusfirmus.org.uk (104 words)

	iBreatheMusic Forums - Cantus firmus challenge
		What would be particularly cool, to my sick mind, at least, would be to record your cantus firmus composition and upload the MP3, along with your explanation of why it meets the critieria--and immediately subjecting yourself to the challenge of gentlemanly critique.
		The penultimate note of the line of counterpoint must be the leading tone (or the 7th degree of the mode), and the final note must be the tonic whether it is above or below the cantus firmus.
		Bongo, regarding the "Cantus Firmus must have counterpoint" stuff -- unless I'm mistaken a Cantus Firmus is a single line of 'starter melody' for what presumably will eventually have a line or two or three of counterpoint added to it.
	www.ibreathemusic.com /forums/showthread.php?t=1559 (1619 words)

	Cantus Firmus Music - Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Cantus Firmus Music is pleased to announce a collaboration with the Gramophone Award-winning ensemble The Cardinall’s Musick which will see the publication of all the music recorded as part of The ASV Byrd Edition.
		Commissioning your own edition is a convenient way of gaining access to the less well known parts of the enormous repertory of early music and can be particularly useful for recording purposes, where the copyright fees charged by large publishing companies may prove prohibitive.
		Cantus Firmus Music editions have been performed and recorded by a number of professional choirs, including The Tallis Scholars, The Sixteen and the choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.
	www.cantusfirmusmusic.co.uk (283 words)

	www.myspace.com/cantusfirmusmusic
		CANTUS FIRMUS is the band that tried to be different just like every other band and ended up with the songs you can hear on this page.
		the name CANTUS FIRMUS was chosen purely because we liked the sound of the words after we heard them in our high school concert band.
		haha so yesterday i wore my cantus firmus shirt for the second time to school and when i walked into spanish class my teacher was like "i looked up what your shirt means.
	www.myspace.com /cantusfirmusmusic (1591 words)

	St Firmus and other catholic saints, patron saints, all saints, catholic saint names, catholic saint pictures
		Man Lament Your Grievous Sins) in one of his grandest cantus firmus works, the opening chorus of the St. Matthew Passion.
		Only three bishops of Thagaste are known: St. Firmus (end of third century), mentioned in the Roman Martyrology on 31 July; St. Alypius (q.v.), b...
		FIRMUS (A.D. 273) Firmus, a salesman from Seleukeia...
	www.all-catholic-saints.info /St-Firmus.html (393 words)

	Saints
		Sometimes the radical transcendence of their lives is most clearly seen in those moments of dissonance, moments when incompatible notes clash together demanding some higher resolution (in music these are called cross relations).
		The Mass setting for this year’s All Saints Eucharist is a cantus firmus mass.
		This work itself is an astonishing set of variations on a simple, borrowed melody, stated in single notes at the beginning (the Kyrie from an organ mass by the eighteenth century French composer André Raison).
	www.rtpnet.org /~cofthec/music/saints.html (538 words)

	Cantus Firmus in a Minor Lyrics - by HAGGARD : Lyrics And Songs
		You are viewing lyrics of Cantus Firmus in a Minor by HAGGARD from the album UNKNOWN at LyricsAndSongs.COM
		The Lyrics above are to Cantus Firmus in a Minor and are (Mostly correct, Yet...
		The Lyrics seem to be the lyrics to Cantus Firmus in a Minor But they are (Wrong)
	www.lyricsandsongs.com /song/92789.html (443 words)

	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Biography of Josquin Desprès
		Although his early masses used a cantus firmus, later ones employed parody techniques and were sometimes based on a motto theme or a series of canons.
		Similarly in motets he abandoned a plainchant cantus firmus in favour of imitative devices.
		Some of his chansons were on erotic and frivolous texts and he was one of the first to appropriate tunes from court and theatre for his serious works.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/codm/desprez.html (282 words)

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