PRoMs - The Production and Reading of Music Sources
Mise-en-page in manuscripts and printed books containing polyphonic music, 1480—1530
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music treatise(s) with appended monophony and polyphony
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empty ruled staves on grid
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notation and staves extended into margin
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Colour of Notation
black
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dark brown
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Type of Notation
chant (square)
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full mensural
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Monophonic Notation
absent
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present
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Level of Calligraphy
fair
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Non-verbal Performance Instructions
coronae
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end symbol
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signa congruentiae
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fully texted with one or two texts
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roman
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rotonda
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textura
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Colour of Text
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dark brown
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gold
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red
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Multiple Texts
no
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yes
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Borders Frequency
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Borders Size
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decorative final long
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end-symbol
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littera notabilior
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Contrapunctus seu figurata musica super plano cantu missarum solennium totius anni, Lyons, France, 1528, , August 1528, 90
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