The Music of the Cantigas reveals the layout ordinances of the medieval city Alfonsina
Abstract: The common regularity of the settlements founded by Alfonso X in Castilla has been studied by prestigious researches of the last century, who have agreed that the geometrical similarity of them could respond to a preconceived idea of the city. However, the absence of documents proving thes...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | México |
| Institución: | UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE NUEVO LEÓN |
| Repositorio: | Contexto. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Autónoma de NL |
| Idioma: | español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:contexto.uanl.mx:article/142 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://contexto.uanl.mx/index.php/contexto/article/view/142 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Alfonso X ciudad medieval regular música medieval Regular Medieval City Medieval music |
| Sumario: | Abstract: The common regularity of the settlements founded by Alfonso X in Castilla has been studied by prestigious researches of the last century, who have agreed that the geometrical similarity of them could respond to a preconceived idea of the city. However, the absence of documents proving these suspicions has meant that many reject the initial intuition and underline the impossibility of finding the layout rules responsible for this regularity. The purpose of this research is to decipher the design ordinances that guided the construction of the Alfonsine cities and to demonstrate, through the urban analysis of three of them and the study of classic wisdom, rediscovered at the time, the relationship between the layout rules of a city and the rules of musical composition. Revealing that the arithmetical and geometric laws used for the composition of the music of the Codex of the Cantigas could be the same ones that were used to design the regular urban pattern. |
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