| The cantus firmus is sounded in semibreves in the middle of the three voices. |
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| In the early years of the seventeenth century, English composers increasingly turned to the hexachord as a cantus firmus for keyboard pieces. |
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| But Farmer's cantus part had no independent existence, and certainly would not have been used for congregational singing. |
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| When copying Monteverdi's Ahi dolente partita on pp.410-11, each occurrence of a unison between the two cantus parts is marked with a cross. |
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| Plainchant melodies, or sections of them, were taken as cantus firmi in the earliest forms of polyphony and in the 13th and 14th-century motet and some early mass movements. |
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| The use of a plainchant cantus firmus, or dominating tenor theme, knit together the movements even though they were separated during the liturgy. |
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| This cadence articulates the structure of the cantus firmus more clearly than the first, marking precisely the end of the second line of the hymn. |
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| On the other hand, the In nomine was still alive in Facy's day, and Lugge was composing his cantus firmus settings, so the genre was not quite dead. |
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| In the final movement of that symphony, the medieval Russian liturgical chant 'Requiescat in pace' is employed as a cantus firmus. |
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| In the Mulliner Book the term is applied in this way, and voluntaries there are seen to be a sort of contrapuntal fantasia or ricercar without any cantus firmus. |
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| The earliest known form of subject is the ecclesiastical cantus firmus, or plain song. |
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| He was the first composer who freed music from the predominant force of the cantus firmus and placed his formative genius above musical tradition. |
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| The centuries-long preference of composers for using the song L'homme armé and the antiphon Da pacem is a striking one: these two melodies are among the most-used cantus firmi in the history of music. |
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| A noteworthy subcategory of fugue is the type based on a cantus firmus. |
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| Cantus swung frantically, attempting to deflect his opponent's blows, one of his swipes finally scoring underneath Soren's defenses. |
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| Cantus paused mid-step, his eyes on the freakish beast that was harnessed to the cart. |
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| With his frilly, fancy clothes and fastidious manner, Cantus always seemed like he belonged more at a poetry recital than in battle. |
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