Chapter 8: Business math, politics, and paradise: the Ars Nova

The ‘‘French’’ preference shown here for the lilting ‘‘trochaic’’ subdivision of the semibreve (implying that the four-lozenge groups would have been lilted that way even before the stems were added) seems to resonate both with earlier ‘‘modal’’ practice and with the later French convention of performing pairs of eighth-notes or sixteenth-notes with a similar, and now definitely unwritten, lilt (the so-called notes in´egales or ‘‘unequal notes’’).
意料之外啊！讲了半天“新艺术”的彼得罗经文歌记谱法，居然神转折，就提到了不均匀演奏的习俗。这关联属实牵强，但是又感觉无法反驳。也许真的是有联系的（？）