MUSI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liturgical Drama, Octoechos, Hypodorian Mode
26 May 2016
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In liturgical drama, everything builds up to lament (eg an impending death) Poetic texts: should be sung in a metrical fashion. Prose texts: should be sung in a non-metrical manner, laments are often in prose. Lament is the dramatic moment of a liturgical drama. Dramatic moment: daniel"s plea for pardon after darius orders that he is to be thrown to the lions. Concept of modality" in flux throughout middle ages. Started to be used in west in 10th 11th century. Borrowed from eastern church (oktoechos: codified pre-existent chant. If the last note is d, it is either dorian or hypodorian. * indicates it doesn"t follow the rules because the note b is the note of the devil, so they changed it. For hypophygian, there is no reason why the reciting tone is not g. Figuring out mode: locate final of piece. We will not be asked to figure out the mode of chants.
