MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Fauxbourdon, Homorhythm, Medieval Music
8 Apr 2016
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Texture individual parts in the music not the same as how many voices/instruments melody lines parts rhythmically different. In general, medieval era anything not monophony is non-imitative polyphony. Point of imitation three-part imitative polyphony beginning of the melody. Machuat one of the composers that we know a lot about and most celebrated, in his own day too, late medieval composers did both sacred and secular music. Genre agnus dei/mass movement one part one piece from the. Medieval music so polyphonic polytextural with different text and melody lines. Western music history printing press within ten years response to demand praised how common it was for people to be literate more than medieval music contributed to this. All sacred music was in latin after 16th century lutheran reformation. World of humans medieval icon study of human body dissections during. Italy became most important for music in renaissance. Secular overtakes in written record than sacred more music in general survives in.
