Roads Taken and Not Taken: The Case of False Counterpoint
Rob C. Wegman



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Example 1 De profundis and Domine miserere in false counterpoint, from Franchino Gaffurio, Practica musice (1496), III. xiv.
Unnumbered Example Two-part singing in parallel seconds, recorded on the island of Krk in Croatia. The Diaphonic music of the Island Krk, Yugoslavia (Folkways FE 4060, 1975)
Example 2 Matins Responsory Hei mihi Domine from the Office of the Dead (LU 1791-92), with sequens according to the rules inferred from the examples given by Gaffurio.
Example 4 Gloria, possibly fragmentary and corrupt, in the Foligno fragment. Nino Pirrotta, “Church Polyphony apropos of a New Fragment at Foligno,” in Harry Powers, ed., Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1968), 113-26.
Example 5 Two-part song Parce Christe spes reorum. Theodoricus Petri, ed., Piae cantiones ecclesiasticae et scholastiae veterum episcoporum (Greifswald: Augustinus Ferberus, 1582), sigs. I4r-I7r. Let voices resound: songs from Piae cantiones (1582), Oxford Camerata, dir. Jeremy Summerly (Naxos, 1998).