Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-394) and index.
Toward a comprehensive view of compositional priorities in the music of Dufay and his contemporaries / Kevin N. Moll -- Dufay : creator of Fauxbourdon / Heinrich Besseler -- Toward a history of the genesis of Fauxbourdon / Rudolf von Ficker -- Tonal harmony and full sonority : a reply to Rudolf von Ficker / Heinrich Besseler -- Harmony in the Cantus-Firmus compositions of the fifteenth century / Bernhard Meier -- The "tonal discant" and "free discant" techniques of composition in the fifteenth century / Ernst Apfel -- The Cantus-Firmus question in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries / Günther Schmidt --The origin of true four-voice counterpoint in England ; Four-voice counterpoint in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries ; The harmonic structure of late medieval music as a foundation of major-minor tonality ; Late medieval harmonic structure and major-minor tonality / Ernst Apfel -- Tonality and harmony in the French Chanson between Machaut and Dufay Wolfgang Marggraf -- The effect of Medieval English polyphony upon the development of continental Cantus-Firmus techniques and tonal structure / Ernest H. Sanders