Chapter 6 Middle ages
... Legato melodies move mostly by step Mixolydian mode Rich, open harmonies Chant portions nonmetrical; organum compound meter • Polyphonic—faster voices over slowmoving tenor line • Alleluia chant returns; otherwise free ...
... Legato melodies move mostly by step Mixolydian mode Rich, open harmonies Chant portions nonmetrical; organum compound meter • Polyphonic—faster voices over slowmoving tenor line • Alleluia chant returns; otherwise free ...
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... compound meter • Polyphonic—faster voices over slowmoving tenor line • Alleluia chant returns; otherwise free ...
... compound meter • Polyphonic—faster voices over slowmoving tenor line • Alleluia chant returns; otherwise free ...
Fact Sheet 1
... It is virtually impossible to tell what the music of Alcuin’s time sounded like, because the earliest surviving copies of notated music date from approximately 900 AD, nearly 100 years after Alcuin’s death. We do know, however, that one of the musical styles that was to play a very important role in ...
... It is virtually impossible to tell what the music of Alcuin’s time sounded like, because the earliest surviving copies of notated music date from approximately 900 AD, nearly 100 years after Alcuin’s death. We do know, however, that one of the musical styles that was to play a very important role in ...
Modern Notation for Plainchant
... Until the beginning of the 20th century, our plainchant was notated either in the neumes of znammeny chant, or in four-line Kievan notation. The 1906 Prostopinije of Bokšai and Malinič inaugurated the use of modern “Italian” musical notation for recording our chant. This handout describes the form o ...
... Until the beginning of the 20th century, our plainchant was notated either in the neumes of znammeny chant, or in four-line Kievan notation. The 1906 Prostopinije of Bokšai and Malinič inaugurated the use of modern “Italian” musical notation for recording our chant. This handout describes the form o ...
Medieval Music - collective conscious
... ~Léonin, Pérotin and the other anonymous composers whose music has survived are representatives of the era of European music history known as the ars antiqua. ~It occurred approximately between 1170 and 1310. ~During this period, rhythmic notation appeared, and the motet was developed. (the motet wa ...
... ~Léonin, Pérotin and the other anonymous composers whose music has survived are representatives of the era of European music history known as the ars antiqua. ~It occurred approximately between 1170 and 1310. ~During this period, rhythmic notation appeared, and the motet was developed. (the motet wa ...
Medieval Music - collective conscious
... ~Léonin, Pérotin and the other anonymous composers whose music has survived are representatives of the era of European music history known as the ars antiqua. ~It occurred approximately between 1170 and 1310. ~During this period, rhythmic notation appeared, and the motet was developed. (the motet wa ...
... ~Léonin, Pérotin and the other anonymous composers whose music has survived are representatives of the era of European music history known as the ars antiqua. ~It occurred approximately between 1170 and 1310. ~During this period, rhythmic notation appeared, and the motet was developed. (the motet wa ...
Gregorian chant - Dr. Michael P. Flynn
... signs that initially only indicated the general outline of the melody, the contour, but not exact intervals; so in fact they were just a reminder for someone who already knew how the melody goes. Later on, one red line was used, to indicate the note fa, then two lines, three… as gradually more lines ...
... signs that initially only indicated the general outline of the melody, the contour, but not exact intervals; so in fact they were just a reminder for someone who already knew how the melody goes. Later on, one red line was used, to indicate the note fa, then two lines, three… as gradually more lines ...
Brief history of Russian music
... confidence in the fruit of their researches. Comparison with indigenous folk repertoires, however, helped to encourage the work anew in the early years of this century (the level of dissonance in Georgian folk singing is often considerably greater than here, for example). Unprepared dissonances, par ...
... confidence in the fruit of their researches. Comparison with indigenous folk repertoires, however, helped to encourage the work anew in the early years of this century (the level of dissonance in Georgian folk singing is often considerably greater than here, for example). Unprepared dissonances, par ...
Charles M. Atkinson, The Critical Nexus: Tone
... divisions of the monochord, with the “vocal” theory of plainchant and its notation, as found in the Musica enchiriadis. Chapter 5 deals exclusively with Alia musica. As part of his analysis of this complex work, Atkinson proposes an authorship scheme of at least four author/commentators whose views ...
... divisions of the monochord, with the “vocal” theory of plainchant and its notation, as found in the Musica enchiriadis. Chapter 5 deals exclusively with Alia musica. As part of his analysis of this complex work, Atkinson proposes an authorship scheme of at least four author/commentators whose views ...
Music History - WordPress.com
... town squares, known as singing journalists. Organum Music: -new music type developed in the late middle ages -second line is added to the chant melody -identical text, tempo, direction (parallel motion) -different pitches -composers kept adding more parts to organum settings, some of which moved at ...
... town squares, known as singing journalists. Organum Music: -new music type developed in the late middle ages -second line is added to the chant melody -identical text, tempo, direction (parallel motion) -different pitches -composers kept adding more parts to organum settings, some of which moved at ...
Medieval - Town of Mansfield, CT
... The earliest music was passed on by word of mouth in what was called the oral tradition. Traditional music began in the 6th century when Pope Gregory wrote down plainsong chant. All plainsong chant had only one vocal line. Music that is performed in unison is called monophony. The adjective form is ...
... The earliest music was passed on by word of mouth in what was called the oral tradition. Traditional music began in the 6th century when Pope Gregory wrote down plainsong chant. All plainsong chant had only one vocal line. Music that is performed in unison is called monophony. The adjective form is ...
leonin and perotin go to school
... Gregorian chants were various religious songs used in churches and monasteries during the Middle Ages. These chants were single melodies. There was only one melody being sung to the words written. Around A.D. 1100, a very important development in music history took place. This development, known as ...
... Gregorian chants were various religious songs used in churches and monasteries during the Middle Ages. These chants were single melodies. There was only one melody being sung to the words written. Around A.D. 1100, a very important development in music history took place. This development, known as ...
Medieval Music - Gregorian Chant
... idea of having two melodic lines sung simultaneously at parallel intervals, usually at the fourth, fifth, or octave. The resulting hollow-sounding music was called organum. By the eleventh century, two or even three melodic lines were no longer moving in parallel motion, but contrary to each other, ...
... idea of having two melodic lines sung simultaneously at parallel intervals, usually at the fourth, fifth, or octave. The resulting hollow-sounding music was called organum. By the eleventh century, two or even three melodic lines were no longer moving in parallel motion, but contrary to each other, ...
LEONIN AND PEROTIN GO TO SCHOOL
... history took place. This development, known as polyphony, combined two or more simultaneous melodic lines. Then, instead ol just one line ol melody, the priests and monks in monasteries could sing two or three or Iour lines ol melody at one lime. Having that many melodies meant that muwould have to ...
... history took place. This development, known as polyphony, combined two or more simultaneous melodic lines. Then, instead ol just one line ol melody, the priests and monks in monasteries could sing two or three or Iour lines ol melody at one lime. Having that many melodies meant that muwould have to ...
May Magnificat note
... May Magnificat was composed in December 2010 – partly as an antidote to the extremely cold winter weather that month which I’m sure everyone remembers! The piece takes its example, and some of its methods, from the choral motet which flourished in the Gothic cathedrals of Europe in the 12th and 13th ...
... May Magnificat was composed in December 2010 – partly as an antidote to the extremely cold winter weather that month which I’m sure everyone remembers! The piece takes its example, and some of its methods, from the choral motet which flourished in the Gothic cathedrals of Europe in the 12th and 13th ...
TONE VS. MODE by Stan Takis More than once I have been
... In music, a scale is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. However, mode is usually used in the sense of scale applied only to the specific diatonic scales found below. The use of more than one mode is polymodal, such as with polymodal chroma ...
... In music, a scale is an ordered series of musical intervals, which, along with the key or tonic, define the pitches. However, mode is usually used in the sense of scale applied only to the specific diatonic scales found below. The use of more than one mode is polymodal, such as with polymodal chroma ...
7 The Future of Chan..
... We have seen through the course of this paper how chant evolved over many hundreds of years from its earliest Greek-mode beginnings into a kind of liturgical folk music in a sense throughout the Middle East and subsequently, with the spread of Christianity, it became the standard means of accompanyi ...
... We have seen through the course of this paper how chant evolved over many hundreds of years from its earliest Greek-mode beginnings into a kind of liturgical folk music in a sense throughout the Middle East and subsequently, with the spread of Christianity, it became the standard means of accompanyi ...
Gregorian Chant
... o Music has long been used in Church o Original musical elements are said to have been used beginning sometime in the 3 rd century Chants of the Office began around 4th Century Desert monks following St. Anthony introduced the practice of continuous psalmody o Sang all 150 in one week Roots of ...
... o Music has long been used in Church o Original musical elements are said to have been used beginning sometime in the 3 rd century Chants of the Office began around 4th Century Desert monks following St. Anthony introduced the practice of continuous psalmody o Sang all 150 in one week Roots of ...
Music Report - St Faith`s Crosby
... blending of both Roman and Gallican styles. As this was quite controversial at the time, to give it some legitimacy the church started to associate Pope Gregory I with this, hence the name "Gregorian Chant". It is in Gregorian Chant that Western music really began to take off. If it had never emerge ...
... blending of both Roman and Gallican styles. As this was quite controversial at the time, to give it some legitimacy the church started to associate Pope Gregory I with this, hence the name "Gregorian Chant". It is in Gregorian Chant that Western music really began to take off. If it had never emerge ...
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... Two figures in Roman intellectual history of great importance Martianus Capella (flourished c435 C.E.) formulated the categories of knowledge we still today call the seven liberal arts, specifically the trivium (grammar, logic, and oratory) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and m ...
... Two figures in Roman intellectual history of great importance Martianus Capella (flourished c435 C.E.) formulated the categories of knowledge we still today call the seven liberal arts, specifically the trivium (grammar, logic, and oratory) and the quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and m ...
2 Chants Ancient Roo.. - Paul Ayick Vintage Brass
... history’s first music theorist and other ancient Greek scientists developed the system of scales (modes) and division of the octave still in use to this day. It was these early Greek thinkers that essentially developed a system of tonal organization that is the foundation for all Western music. Pyth ...
... history’s first music theorist and other ancient Greek scientists developed the system of scales (modes) and division of the octave still in use to this day. It was these early Greek thinkers that essentially developed a system of tonal organization that is the foundation for all Western music. Pyth ...