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mensuralist|ˈmɛnsjʊərəlɪst, ˈmɛnʃ(j)ʊər-|
[a. F. mensuraliste: cf. mensural a. 2 and -ist.]
1. A composer of measurable music.
1901Wooldridge Oxf. Hist. Mus. I. 132 The figures adopted by the earlier mensuralists.
2. An advocate of a style of plainsong in which the rhythm depends on using notes of fixed length. Also attrib.
1905Grammar of Plainsong i. i. 3 The 14th century brought a further falling off in the chant. At that time..the harmonists and mensuralists were making their mark even on the Church's song, and destroying its rhythm. 1911Catholic Encycl. XII. 147/1 The mensuralists.., with Decheurens as their principal representative, hold that the notes of plain chant are subject to strict measurement. 1929Music Q. XV. 18 Even the mensuralist..expressed the opinion that the Gregorian composers probably were not clearly conscious of writing metric arrangements. 1954Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 5) VI. 820/1 The Mensuralists, in so far as they agree among themselves, hold that the notes in early medieval manuscripts are not..of approximately equal duration, but that they represent longs and shorts, the longs always being twice the duration of the shorts. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 13 Feb. 83/4 For more than fifty years many books and articles have been published expounding the ‘mensuralist’ view with great ingenuity. 1964E. Cardine Is Gregorian Chant Measured Mus.? 10 The a priori mensuralist appears perfectly clearly from the Introduction [of Vollaerts' book] onwards. |