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HOCKET
in va - cu- m
is al-mis pre - ci-bus.
PP
The effect of the chanson 'Trop est qe fou', which has been heard
repeated several times in the earlier, un-hocketed, part
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399
of this last
motet, coming through with the emphasis of this staccato technique,
is thrilling in performance.
DUPLE TIME
The rhythm of nature is binary, not ternary. It is hardly correct
to speak of the later Middle Ages as having
'discovered' or 're
discovered' binary rhythm, for it was there all the time, not only in
in our modern
nature but also in the music. With the improvement
methods of transcribing and printing old music, writing / J instead
of J & 9 we are now able to see more clearly how this '
greater rhythm *
was in fact present, consciously or unconsciously, in the minds of the
early musicians. Thus the following passage: 1
Ex. 224
(Root of pardon, fount of grace, guide and harbour, gate of our fatherland.)
1 Florence, Bibl. Laur. plut. xxix, 1, fo. 285. Printed thus in Oxford History ofMusic,
1st ed., i (1901), p. 367.