1.1- Middle Ages Song Background

Question 1

Haec Dies

Answer 1

genre: Gregorian Chant
comp: anon
written: early middle ages
text: psalm 118:1-24
lang: Latin
perf. forces: soloist and unison choir
texture: monophonic
for Easter Sunday Mass

Question 2

Haec Dies Organum

Answer 2

genre: organum notre dame style
comp: anon but in style of Leonin
text: psalms
lang: Latin
perf. forces: two soloist voices and choir
texture: polyphonic

Question 3

O mitissima/Virgo/Haec Dies

Answer 3

genre: polytextual motet
comp: anon
text: poems in praise of virgin mary
lang: Latin
perf. forces: 3 voices
texture: polyphonic

Question 4

Ce fut en mai

Answer 4

genre: monophonic chanson
comp: Moniot d’Arras
text: secular poem
lang: old French
perf forces: solo singer
texture: monophonic
structure: strophic

Question 5

Puis qu’en oubli

Answer 5

genre: polyphonic chanson
comp: Guillaume de Machaut
text: secular poem by Machaut
lang: old French
perf forces: 3 voices

Question 6

Royal Estampie No 4

Answer 6

estampie is earliest notated dance type
genre: dance music
comp: anon
texture: monophonic
structure: sectional with open and closed endings
perf forces: variable # of instruments
came from a book “chansonnier du roy”, songbook of the king