MUSI 2730 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Guillaume De Machaut, Josquin Des Prez, Notre Dame School
Document Summary
Music of the middle ages- sacred vs secular, plainchant (monophonic melodies of the. Church until the use of polyphonies, gregorian chant- official music of the church, conjunct)), Hildegard of bingen- 1098-1179, medieval, german nun, woman, actually wrote her own lyrics which was rare, wider range, contour, and shape, a song for worship- not a gregorian chant, sacred, monophonic. Early polyphony- notre dame school- group of composers who took pre-existing gregorian chant and added to it to make a polyphony, organum, extra lines became increasingly independent, rhythm becomes important, develop notated rhythm, cantus firmus. Secular music- traveling minstrel- court jester, troubadours and trouveres (higher social level, developed in france, aristocratic poet musicians) Guillaume de machaut- developed sacred and secular music, medieval, influential, primary composer of the ars nova movement (secular, more adventurous with rhythm and syncopation), chanson-medieval french love song, pre-counter reformation. Arcadelt- italian madrigal, renaissance, polyphonic, dissonant for the time.
