The practice of Renaissance improvisation

GYMEL + CONTRATENOR BASSUS

GYMEL IN UPPER 3DS / LOWER 6THS

Treatises

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FR

1516

AARON, Pietro

De Institutione harmonica, liber tertius

[composing with a gymel in sixths and thirds]

TML

BJ

1558

LUSITANO, Vicente

Introduttione facilissima

[bassus with soprano and alto in sixths]

BJ

GYMEL IN LOWER 3DS / UPPER 6THS

Treatises

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FR

ca. 1480

GUILIELMUS, Monacus

De preceptis artis musice

[contratenor bassus for gymel in thirds/sixths]

I-Vmn

TML

BJ

ca. 1480

GUILIELMUS, Monacus

De preceptis artis musice

Rule for three part writing without mutation 

I-Vmn

TML

BJ

1558

LUSITANO, Vicente

Introduttione facilissima

[bassus with soprano and alto in thirds]

BJ

BOTH GYMELS

Repertoire

Title

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ca. 1500

COMPERE, Loyset

Vive le noble Roy de France

AS

1505-20

ANONYMOUS

Cancionero de Palacio

De Monçon

AS

1541

NOLA, Ioan D. G. da

Canzoni Villanesche

Cingari simo

AS

1541

NOLA, Ioan D. G. da

Canzoni Villanesche

Medici nui siam

AS

1571

GORZANIS, Giacomo

Il secondo libro delle Napolitane

Piaga che medicina

AS

1571

GORZANIS, Giacomo

Il secondo libro delle Napolitane

Marta gentile

AS

1571

GORZANIS, Giacomo

Il secondo libro delle Napolitane

Non è amore

AS