MUS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Messe De Nostre Dame, Bach Family, George Frideric Handel
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Chapter 4- music of the middle ages- culture of the medieval world: Unifying force: christian force, giotto, lamentation (c. 1305) Lower pitch, man singing, step-wise, not a lot of leaps. Pope gregory i- he categorized all of the chants into one specific body of information, organized them so people could listen in a more organized way. Earliest notated music that has a continuous performing tradition- church today- culture we have in faith based situations is due to gregorian chants. Syllabic-each word has a pitch, one note each word (dies irae) vs. melismatic-a lot of pitches on each word(hildegard) Notre dame polyphony: written so it would sound good in notre dame. Duple: texture- polyphonic (more than one voice), homophonic (original chant, new voices on top of it) Ordinary: w(cid:396)ite (cid:373)usi(cid:272) (cid:271)ased o(cid:374) (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g they"(cid:396)e i(cid:374) Guillamae de machuat: range of vocal parts, use of dissonance, messe de notre dame. Music of the middle ages take 2: secular music.
