MUS111H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Homophony, Dynamic Range
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Middle ages/medieval 800-1400 music from 6th century but notated in 9th century (95th to 15th century) Modal, nonmetric (she"s only going to play us early medieval), monophonic, voice, a cappella. Texts are all sacred and from the church. One syllable of text has many notes to it (example, saying i you sing more than one different note) Rhythm: text is controlling the rhythm (not necessarily always the case) Metric (give away that its renaissance and not medieval), as you need metric for when two different groups are singing. Still modal (tend to sound more consonant though) Renaissance polyphony is more consonant (sounds more harmonious towards our ears) Text is more important, really want to hear the text here. Rhythm: not constant, irregular but there is some sense of fixed rhythm since there is meter. Mostly homophony (b/c of chords underneath) but some polyphony. Melody: long phrases (feeling of neverending melody) ornamentation. Giveaway for classical is that there"s no harpsichord.
