Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - Musica Enchiriadis, Organum, Counterpoint
6 Feb 2013
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Polyphony is difficult to find out when it began. Another type of troping vertical troping. First written down at the end of the 9th century musical instructional book from eastern france: the musica enchiriadis: discusses organum. Musica enchiriadis shows how the vox organalis might hold the same pitch as the starting of the vox principalis until it is a fourth or fifth away, and then start the parallel motion eg. 2-3, page 61. Pitch signs used in the eg. in the m. e. Shows music theorists are already thinking about stratified pitches image on pg 61. One of the 1st books to notate organum: winchester troper (1000) Ad organum faciendum two rules: vox organalis should always be above the plainchant, two voices should move in contrary motion when leaping. Now there are two independent melodic lines, forming intervals at every step: counterpoint. Perfect consonance: intervals expressed as a ratio: octave, fifth, and fourth. Imperfect consonance: the third and the sixth.
