Music and the moderni, 1300-1350

Music theorists labelled the musical art of the 1330s and 1340s as ''new'' and ''modern''. A close reading of writings on music theory and the polyphonic repertory from the first half of the fourteenth century reveals a modern musical art that arose due to specific innovations in music notation. The French ars nova employed as its theoretical fundament a new system for arranging musical time propo...