‘The chief exercise of the chest and vocal organs is “vociferation”, which is singing, reading, or crying [loud shouting], which has the...

‘The Music, lovely science, awakens the spirits and comforts people. There is nothing as sweet as hearing different voices intoned...

‘He then recited a heroic poem that he himself had previously written in honour of our Piero dei Medici. This [poem] was indeed his, and...

[fol. 22r.] Chapter two: of the definition and the division of melodía Melodía is to adorn and to grace the sounds of plainchant. Melodía...

(Summary) The Rules of Solfaing When solfaing, the singer must be aware of the mode of the piece, since this will tell them what sort of...

‘To sing with fidelity... is to sing so that anyone of those singing together should remain in the form of those notes that were...

‘In honour of immortal God, the Supreme Pontiff Nicholas V filled the most sumptuous sanctuary that he had erected among the papal courts...

‘Whether descant may be commendable in the divine service, and of certain things which ought to be eschewed in song. Like as it is...

‘The harmonic flower [flos harmonicus] is, however, an ornament of the voice or sound, and a very fast and storm-like vibration. Some...

‘All the singers of France have learnt the Italian style that they now call ‘French’, but cannot express perfectly the tremulous...

Notker sends greeting to brother Lantbert. At your request, I have taken pains to explain as well as I could...

‘Moreover, simple as much as diminished counterpoint is made in two ways, that is, either in writing or mentally. Counterpoint...

A Gloria from an unknown mass setting by Estienne Grossin. Check out the ossia cadenza!

‘It pollutes the very practice of devotion that in the sight of God... by the debauchery of their wanton voices, by their self-display,...