Didactic role of music

Question 1

Significance of Hope’s music

Answer 1

The Lover memorises her songs as a way of settling his tormented emotion
Hope’s music is also polyphonic - shows an extension of the craft of song-writing

Question 2

Change in notational style across the Remede

Answer 2

Early interpolated songs - use longs and breves

Later interpolated songs - use minims and semibreves = older notational style gives way to new

Question 3

Leach quotation

Answer 3

‘It opens with forty-four lines of a deeply didactic character, introducing the twelve things that one needs to learn something properly’