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L'Ars Nova italiana

The technique of polyphony and counterpoint is also developed in Italy, although much more simp lice than the French one. Italian chapels and cathedrals of the thirteenth century was to cantus planus binary consists of a repertoire of liturgical melody accompanied by another melody that progressed free. Towards the end of this century, however, the musical culture of Northern Italy seems somehow influenced by the French. This comes from the Treaty mensural notation Pomerium in art musicae mensuratae (1321-1326) of the Paduan scholar Marchetto. In these years were written many Latin motets. Almost all of the production period was secular, even if the composers were mostly clergymen.