Peter Urquhart
I was an associate professor of music at Univ. of New Hampshire, director of Capella Alamire, and am a scholar of Franco-Flemish music, canon, and musica ficta c. 1500. I also have interests in solmization, pitch organization, other performance practice issues, shape-note repertory, music by Charles Ives, and other 20th c. composers.
Supervisors: Teachers were Richard Sherr, Joseph Maneri (& Co.), Joseph Flummerfelt, Lewis Lockwood, among others.
Address: Portsmouth, NH
Supervisors: Teachers were Richard Sherr, Joseph Maneri (& Co.), Joseph Flummerfelt, Lewis Lockwood, among others.
Address: Portsmouth, NH
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The basis of the article was a talk that aimed to describe the issue of musica ficta in ten minutes. The author avoids use of the term "musica ficta" when possible, because of the mismatch between the old and the modern meanings. The modern meaning can result in very different performances of 15th and 16th c. works following opposing interpretations. There are essentially three—a linear view, a vertical or harmonic view, and the most common one—the viewpoint that "this is too treacherous an area to be sure of anything, and maybe it didn't matter." The author does not present his own viewpoint, other than to indicate that the relativism of the last one requires disproving one of the other two, too large a job for ten minutes.
The basis of the article was a talk that aimed to describe the issue of musica ficta in ten minutes. The author avoids use of the term "musica ficta" when possible, because of the mismatch between the old and the modern meanings. The modern meaning can result in very different performances of 15th and 16th c. works following opposing interpretations. There are essentially three—a linear view, a vertical or harmonic view, and the most common one—the viewpoint that "this is too treacherous an area to be sure of anything, and maybe it didn't matter." The author does not present his own viewpoint, other than to indicate that the relativism of the last one requires disproving one of the other two, too large a job for ten minutes.