... conductus was that the tenor was newly composed and not based on a chant melody. The main technical advancements of these years were the defining of the modal rhythmic system and teh invention of a new kind of notation for measured rhythm, which allowed composers more control over performance practice. This early form of polyphonic composition contiuned well into the late 13th Cent. and developed into what became known as the motet. 2. In an essay of three short paragraphs, discuss what was "new" about music in 14th century France (Ars Nova) and Italy (Trecento), and early 15th century England. (top) Many changes in musical composition took place during the fourteenth-century and into the early fifteenth-century. Many of the changes were brought about because of a new interest in secular music as well as sacred. Contrasting to the music of thirteenth-century, where music was more stable, structured, and unified, the fourteenth-century ...

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