Philippe de Vitry

Philippe de Vitry stands at the centre of the Ars nova world of 14th-century music. The composer, theorist, and poet from France is associated with rhythmic innovation, notation, motet practice, and the intellectual culture of the late Medieval period. His tag connects theory, sacred and secular polyphony, and the technical foundations that made later European complexity possible.

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  Rich music collection of the Trecento times recovered from Florentine palimpsest

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