English, French, and Italian Music of the Fourteenth Century
Transcribed by Gilbert Reaney and edited and introduced by Denis Stevens
Myra Verney (soprano)
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor)
Wilfred Brown (tenor)
Helen Gaskell (cor anglads) John Alexandra (bassoon)
Maxwell Ward (viola)
George Malcolm (regal) Gilbert Webster (tabor)
Ars Nova wasthe title of a treatise by Philippe de Vitry , a fourteenth-century composer and theorist who was responsible for certain improvements in musical notation. Greater precision in the notation of rapid passages was brought about by rhe introduction of the minim, and rhe use of red and black notes made possible for the first time the accurate indication of subtle and complex rhythms D. S.