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Anonymous

Ars musica

Period: 13th

Source: Adrien de la Fage, Essais de dipthérographie musicale (Paris: Legouix, 1864), 483–84.

Electronic version prepared by John Csonka E, Jan Herlinger C, Angela Mariani C, and Thomas J. Mathiesen A for the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, 1991.

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[483]Quatuor ut reges infra sua regna sedentes;

Hinc protus ac deuterus, tritus tropicusque tetrardus

[484]Sub dicione sua cohibent modulamina cuncta,

Quos tam prudenter distinxit musica mater.

Nam statuit cunctas vocum discrimine metas,

Unus ut alius non usurpet sua cantus.

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A gravitate quidem nimium distabat acumen,

Et gravitas neumis non conveniebat acutis

Fit ex consilio divisio quatuor octo.

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Omnibus hospitium finale dedit tetracordum.

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