MUS 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Hildegard Of Bingen, Gregorian Chant, Cyclic Mass
MUS10 Lecture 10 – The Medieval Period
The Medieval Period
• Middle ages characterized by plainchant or Gregorian chant
o Tonality not yet established
▪ Chuh odes: diffeet sales of pithes o keys
o Unaccompanied and monophonic
o Organum: first simple polyphonic technique
▪ Notre Dame School used early polyphony
o Used neumatic notation for pitches, steady rhythms with pauses at the ends of
sentences or phrases
▪ Early form of modern notation
• Music predominantly church music but other music existed, just not transcribed
because not written within the church
• Liturgy and Mass
o Liturgy: organization or schedule of church services
o Mass: public worship
▪ Ordinario does not change
• Kyrie Eleison (10th century, middle ages)
• Gloria
• Credo
• “atus fo Mozat’s Reuie
• Agnus Dei
▪ Cyclic mass: first multi-movement work in Western music
o No instruments used, only vocal music
• Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179)
o Woa opose kow as “iyl of the Rhie
▪ Noble or high class background
o Christian mystic: experienced visions, euphoria and mental clarity (probably
actually suffered from chronic migraine)
▪ Participated in divine services such as singing mass
▪ Formed her own independent convent
o Musical career
▪ Around 80 works of music but also texts
▪ Short spiritual songs (monophonic chants) using her own poetry,
plainchant
▪ Drama with music (liturgical dramas)
o Kyrie Eleison
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