The Wild Fourteenth Century
Composers
Manuscripts
Theory
Organum
100

Italian term for fourteenth century music

Trecento
100

His compositions make up nearly a quarter of surviving Trecento music

Francesco Landini

100

Written by Leonin and revised by Perotin according to Anonymous IV

Magnus Liber Organi

100

Term for when the breve is divided into three semi-breves, and each semi-breve can be divided into three minims

Tempus perfectum, prolatio major
100

Organum style with rhythmic modes in both voices

discant

200
Multiple popes vie for power

Papal schism

200

Composer who wrote the first unified Mass Ordinary

Guillaume de Machaut

200

Describe tempus imperfectum, prolatio minor

Breve divided into two, semi-breve divided into two

200

Earliest form of recorded organum

parallel organum

300

Allegorical story where a horse becomes king and chaos ensues

Roman de Fauvel

300

Wrote 'many pleasing discants' 

Perotin

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