Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval music: The third part in polyphonic composition, counting upward from the tenor as one; treble.
- noun A composition for three voices.
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It is striking, however, that the composer ignores the usual hierarchy between motetus and triplum and treats all three voices equally, or both higher ones as a kind of duo, the lower one as “harmony carrier” though not rhythmically separated.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Whilst the text of the motetus is in Latin and is religious in character, the text of the triplum is secular and in a northern French dialect scattered with words from the Picardy dialect.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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The Sanctus is notated as a motet, with the duplum and triplum in two columns and the tenor at the bottom of the page, each line being provided with its own text.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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The compositions remained the same as formerly, triplum, quadruplum, etc.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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All of these forms were also distinguished as duplum, triplum and quadruplum, according to the number of voices.
A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present 1874
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Back then, the four voices (tenor (todays bass), counter-tenor (todays taille), motetus (todays haute-contre) and triplum (todays dessus)) all sang from the same clef.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: champion of among other things, mezzos! Celeste Winant 2008
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Efto: Sc exceflui» quo eft maeis quam triplum, aquale fit fpatium k ..
Opera geometrica Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 1644
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Sit primd minturquam triplum » eruntq; du« refiquaf port&o*
Opera geometrica Torricelli, Evangelista, 1608-1647 1644
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