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adj. - Having notes of fixed rhythmic value; Of or relating to measure.

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  • In these and other works Ockeghem's compositional choices seem game-like, especially to singers reading from the original mensural notation.
  • This peculiarity and the fact that these mixed forms employ both mensural and modal notation in alternation pose problems for the performer which can only be solved, as...
  • At the same time new techniques of composition evolved and were refined: the various sections of Mass settings were unified by means of a constantly recurring cantus firmus and...
  • Two types of notation are employed: Franconian or modal notation, characteristic of the Ars Antiqua, used in the Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei, and a mensural notation,...
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