Landini's Musical Patrimony: A Reassessment of Some Compositional Conventions in Trecento Polyphony

Abstract

The Landini, or under-third cadence functions at the contrapuntal level as the ornamentation of a sixth-to-octave expansion. At the same time, the melodic descent to the penultimate note of the cadence often serves as the completion, resolution, or extension of descending patterns set up earlier in a composition. In those cases where the cadence diverges from its standard form, deviations usually reflect a specific motivic pattern established at the outset of the work. When the development of the under-third cadence as a convention in Landini's ballatas is viewed from a predominantly melodic, rather than contrapuntal perspective, precedents may be identified within earlier Italian secular repertories, including the madrigals and monophonic ballatas of the mid-fourteenth century.

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