a cantus firmus ("fixed melody") is a pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition. The plural of this Latin term is cantus firmi...

accompaniment filling the long intervals between the successive lines of the cantus firmus, a feature of their large scale which has not pleased all commentators...

complexity, with a very simple part that remains constant known as the cantus firmus (Latin for "fixed melody"). Species counterpoint generally offers less...

contains one or more voices derived from another via strict imitation; Cantus firmus masses, in which a pre-existing tune appears in one voice of the texture...

Sanctus, and Agnus Dei – shared a common musical theme, commonly a cantus firmus, thus making it a unified whole.[citation needed] The cyclic mass was...

Lamb of God, innocent) as the cantus firmus. All sentences of the first stanza of Decius' hymn are used as cantus firmus throughout the movement by the...

basis. The models Pachelbel used most frequently are the three-part cantus firmus setting, the chorale fugue and, most importantly, a model he invented...

some requiring only a single keyboard and pedal, with an unadorned cantus firmus. Others involve two keyboards and pedal. These include several canons...

building psalms and Magnificat on the traditional plainchant as a cantus firmus. The composition is scored for up to ten vocal parts and instruments...

most prominent types of mass composition during the Renaissance, the cantus firmus and the paraphrase mass. In the sense considered here, the term parody...