The practice of Renaissance improvisation

CANON AT THE FIFTH

 CANON AT THE UPPER FIFTH

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FR

1552

COCLICO, Adrian Petit

Compendium musices

Desperando spero

TML

AS

1552

COCLICO, Adrian Petit

Compendium musices

Fuga in diapente, post semibrevem

TML

AS

1592

MONTANOS, Francisco de

Arte de musica

[At the upper fifth, after a tactus]

BJ

1592

MONTANOS, Francisco de

Arte de musica

BJ

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1503

OBRECHT, Jacob

Missa Græcorum

Benedictus

AS

ca. 1520

DE LA RUE, Pierre

Missa Santa Cruce

Et resurrexit

AS

ca. 1520

DESPREZ, Josquin

Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie

Pleni sunt cœli [same music as Nunquid iustificari]

AS

1545

DESPREZ, Josquin

Bicinia gallica, latina et germanica - Tomus 1

Nunquid iustificari [same music as Pleni sunt]

AS

1547

MEYER, Gregorius

From Glarean’s Dodecachordon

[canon at the fifth in hypolydian]

AS

1587

ASOLA, Giammateo

Madrigali a 2 voci in fuga

O felice chi t’ama

AS

 CANON AT THE LOWER FIFTH

Treatises

1592

MONTANOS, Francisco de

1592

MONTANOS, Francisco de

Arte de musica, De compostura

Arte de musica, De compostura

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TML

TML

FR

BJ

BJ

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1514

DESPREZ, Josquin

Missa Mater Patris

Christe eleison

AS

1587

ASOLA, Giammateo

Madrigali a 2 voci in fuga

Fuggi deh fuggi o stolta

AS