MSC 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: A Cappella, Motet, Lamb Of God
Document Summary
Music 1003: listening to western music 7th edition. Gave home to guillaume de machaut (1300-1377) Was notably impressive and benefited from poets and musicians. Messe de nostre dame (mass of our lady) Before machaut: proper mass: composers wrote polyphone for one or two sections. After machaut: created ordinary of the mass. Five sung portions of the mass specifically. New genre of expression: created monophonic love songs in the vernacular. At court, a variety of instruments were heard. Intellectual and artistic flowering occurring in italy,, france, than england. Humanism: belief that people are something more than mere conduit for gifts descending from heaven. Motet: composition for a polyphonic choir, setting a latin text on a sacred object and intended to be sung at religious service, or home. Ave maria: imitation- a polyphonic procedure where by one or more voices duplicate, in turn, the notes of a melody.
