The Mensural Structures of Antoine Busnoys's L'homme armé Mass Alamire Foundation
This article offers an analysis of the mensural structures of Antoine Busnoys’s L’homme armé mass. The premise of this analysis is that the mensural structure of the mass’s proportional tenor necessarily imposes its patterning on the three non-tenor polyphonic voices, hence minor modus in the proportional tenor relates to major modus in the other voices, and major modus in the proportional tenor is reflected at what might be termed a ...