A rhythmic realization for Raimbaut de Vaqueiras’ Kalenda Maya

Authors

  • Liduino Pitombeira Louisiana State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2005.55489

Keywords:

Kalenda Maya, troubadours, medieval rhythm, modal, isosyllabic, declamatory

Abstract

The musical production of the troubadours is transmitted to us through about forty manuscripts  of which
only four contain musical notation. Rhythmic information is not sufficiently provided because those manuscripts
are all written in non-mensural notation. This paper proposes an alternative for the rhythmic interpretation of
Raimbaut de Vaqueiras’estampida Kalenda Mayain light of the theories of rhythm for the musicof thetroubadours.
In order to understand some of the criteria used to edit this kind of music, a brief survey of the rhythmic theories for
the troubadours’ repertoire, including some renditions of Kalenda Maya derived from those theories, is provided.

Author Biography

  • Liduino Pitombeira, Louisiana State University

    Liduino Pitombeira (Brazil, 1962) is visiting assistant professor of Composition at Louisiana State University (USA), where he received his PhD in Composition with a minor in Theory under the guidance of Dinos Constantinides. He also studied Composition in Brazil with José Alberto Kaplan, Tarcísio José de Lima, and Vanda Ribeiro Costa. Performances of his works have been given by the The Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet, the Louisiana Sinfonietta, the Red Stick Saxophone Quartet, the New York University New Music Trio, Orquestra Sinfônica do Recife (Brazil),Syntagma, Poznan Philharmonic Orchestra (Poland),and Orquestra de Câmara Eleazar de Carvalho (Brazil). He has received many composition awards in Brazil and the USA, including the first prize in the 1998 Camargo Guarnieri Composition Competition and the first prize in the “Sinfonia dos 500 Anos” Composition Contest. He also received the 2003 MTNA-Shepherd Distinguished Composer of theYear Award for his piece “Brazilian Landscapes No.1”. Pitombeira is a member ofASCAP, College MusicSociety, Society of Composer Inc., National Association of Composers-USA,American Music Center, and Sociedade Brasileira de Música Contemporânea. His pieces are published by Cantus Quercus, Conners, Alry, RioArte, and Irmãos Vitale.

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“A Rhythmic Realization for Raimbaut De Vaqueiras’ Kalenda Maya”. 2005. Per Musi, no. 12 (July): 95-104. https://doi.org/10.35699/2317-6377.2005.55489.