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Pope Gregory

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700’s
Codification of chant, standardization
guided by divine inspiration
replaced/incorporated other chant styles

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Sections of the ordinary (or common)

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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

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Sections of the proper

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Collects, epistles, gospel, introit, alleluia, tract, others

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Published book that contains ordinary and proper

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Gradual

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Tropes

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Adding to already written music
Melismas
Prosula (words for melismas that explained other parts of text)
adding words and music to an existing chant

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Boethius

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Roman music theorist
wrote De Instutione Musica
believed that music was a science, all about numbers, intervallic relationships, etc
Included other disciplines under his study of music

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Hildegard von Bingen

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German nun
Wrote "Ordo Virtutum"
First non-liturgical music drama
sacred work
wrote music and text
divinely inspired
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Rhythmic modes

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Six different modes, all triple based

from Notre Dame

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Medieval modes

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Authentic (odd)
ti to do (about a 9th)

Plagal (even) (hypo, such as hypodorian)
so to so (roughly)

D dorian
E phyrgian
F Lydian
G Mixolydian

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Organum

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Parallel (fifths, below main voice)

Free, Aquitanian, Florid - tenor, fixed melody sung, other part improvised using consonances

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Leonin and Perotin

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Worked at Notre Dame

Leonin wrote Magnus Liber Organi (collection
Perotin

Perotin - increased number of parts in organum from 3 to 4

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Clasula

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Tenor is in fixed rhythm, rewritten section of a piece of music

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Incipit

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Words and or notes used to lead off a piece of music or literature

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Vox Organalis

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Added part in organum (to a chant)

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Conductus

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Latin poem for 2-4 voices

non-liturgical, but still sacred

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added voice in parallel organum

chant voice in florid organum

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organal voice

tenor

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Winchester Troper

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  • collection of tropes from Winchester
  • contains organal parts to accompany aurally known chants
  • largest known collection of organal parts from this time
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Musica Enchiriadis

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Treatise to train new clerical members

-practical : explains modes, singing exercises for practice

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Magnus Liber Organi

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two-part settings of solo portions of responsorial chants

-developed at Notre Dame (Leonin)

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Micrologus

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  • Hexachord system
  • by Guido D’Arezzo
  • precursor to modern solfege
  • guidonian hand to remember notes, intervals
  • Ut Queant Laxis, by Guido to teach solfege
  • It’s called solmization in this setting
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Ars Nova

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  • Phillipe de Vitry

- author and composer of a book (first major Ars Nova composer)

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Phillipe de Vitry vs. Jacques de Liege

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de Liege preferred old school
said groupings of three were holy
de Vitry used duple and triple rhythms

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Isorhythm

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tenor repeats a rhythm throughout

  • Talea repeating rhythm found in ars nova tenor parts
  • Color melodic idea repeated throughout the tenor part
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Guillaume de Machaut

Mass of Notre Dame

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  • Early example of mass written entirely by one person
  • one singer per part
  • Isorhythm is used
  • First polyphonic setting of an ordinary
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Franconian motets vs Petronian motets

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  • both relatively rhythmically precise
  • petronian motets were busier, highly melismatic
  • Franconian motets would use no more than three semi-breves (sixteenth notes), per tempus
  • Petronian motets were probably slower to accommodate all the notes
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Trouveres, Troubadors, Minnesingers

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Trouveres - Northern France
Troubadors - Southern France
Minnesingers - German

Poet musicians, all talked about ideal love

Minnesingers talked more about divine love, theism, religious responsibility and a sense of duty. Also, the crusades

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Goliards

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Students and clerics who travelled and sang
sacred and secular music
sophisticaed music, meant for an educated audience

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Musica ficta

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alterations in accidentals, sometimes notated, sometimes assumed as performance practice

avoiding tritones
creating double leading tone cadences

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Roman de Fauvel

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Narrative poem satirizing monarch

Ars nova, includes motets

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Pastourelle

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French song type that speaks unfavorably of knights

sex and/or rape, pillaging often involved

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Adam de la Halle

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French trouvère
wrote “Jeu de Robin et de Marion”
story of Robin Hood

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Landini

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Ars Nova
Landini cadence (7-6-1)
wrote “Non avra ma’pieta”

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Worcester fragments

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collection of music from Worcester

conductus and motet are most prominent

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Scaracialupi Codex

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later 1300’s early 1400’s

compile by Antonio Scarcialupi, organist from Florence

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Old Hall Manuscript

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collection of English compositions
early 1400’s
uses parallel 3rds and 6ths

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Madrigal

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Italian, secular
two voices
poems, love poems

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Shawm

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double-reed predecessor to oboe

38
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Racket

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predecessor to bassoon

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Sackbut

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predecessor to trombone

40
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Dodekachordron

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Garlneus
Added Ionian, hypoionian,
Aeloian, hypoaeloian

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