MUS-0001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Hurdy-Gurdy, Hildegard Of Bingen, Ordo Virtutum
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Texture- refers to how various melodic lines in a piece of music interacts with one another. The simplest texture- monophony- just one unaccompanied melody- common in medieval music. Homophony and polyphony- two or more melodies/ notes being played or sung at the same time. Overview of the middle ages (medieval period: from the collapse of western roman empire (5th cent. Introduction to medieval music: systems for precisely notating music developed in western europe around the end of the 1st millennium (ca. 1000 ad: most western medieval music that survives in scores comes from the christian church (parchment was expensive and it was a laborious process to record the music. Gregory i received the chant from a dove from the holy spirit gives a sense of authority to the chant. Different from the major/minor scales commonly used today (they are in today"s c major but they start and end on different notes) The introduction to western music lecture notes- fall 2016.
