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    Ars Nova
    noun
    the style of composition characteristic of the 14th century in France and Italy.
  • ars nova
    ars nova
    noun
    a style of music of the 14th century, characterized by great freedom and variety of rhythm and melody contrasted with the strictness of the music of the 13th century

Ars Nova

American  
[ahrz noh-vuh, ahrs] / ˈɑrz ˈnoʊ və, ˈɑrs /

noun

Music.
  1. the style of composition characteristic of the 14th century in France and Italy.


ars nova British  
/ ˈɑːz ˈnəʊvə /

noun

  1. a style of music of the 14th century, characterized by great freedom and variety of rhythm and melody contrasted with the strictness of the music of the 13th century

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Ars Nova

< Medieval Latin: new art

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The singers, the Ars Nova Copenhagen, are the real stars.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 19, 2024

In 2002, Jenny and Jon Steingart founded the Off Broadway incubator Ars Nova as a way of honoring Jenny’s brother, Gabriel Wiener, who in 1997 died of a brain aneurysm at the age of 26.

From New York Times May 8, 2023

Which is a shame, because the musical, originally developed off-Broadway at Ars Nova, could use dramaturgical refinement.

From Washington Post Dec. 4, 2022

Most recently Ars Nova, the prominent Off Broadway incubator, announced that it would move to a pay-what-you-want model for the coming season.

From New York Times Sep. 23, 2022

The Off Broadway incubator Ars Nova will allow audience members to pay what they wish for theater tickets in a new initiative called “What’s Ars Is Yours: Name Your Price,” the company announced on Wednesday.

From New York Times Aug. 31, 2022

Take MacColl’s case: a typical instance of morbus ferox ars nova p. 245anglicana: under dear Colenso he became an official at the Tate.

From Masques & Phases by Ross, Robert

They were regarded by their contemporaries as exponents of the ars nova, in contradistinction to the Franconian teaching, which was called ars antiqua.

From A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present by Mathews, W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock)

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