John Dygon's Proportiones Practicabiles Secundum Gaffurium

Download or read book John Dygon's Proportiones Practicabiles Secundum Gaffurium written by John Dygon and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Augustine's Monastery in Canterbury at the Dissolution and the holder of a bachelor's degree in music from the University of Oxford; but the treatises of the Cambridge manuscript, rather than presenting a new and independent treatment of proportions in polyphony, are in fact largely extracted and paraphrased from Book IV of the Practica musice of Franchinus Gaffurius, first printed in Milan in 1496. Replacing the musical examples of the celebrated Italian treatise with newly composed works, Dygon adapted Gaffurius's text to increase its relevance for English practitioners.