idiophone
bells, whistles, rattles, and sticks (anything percussion that doesn’t have a skin)- sistra
aerophone
Air/wind instrument- aulos
membranophone
Drums
chordophone
Stringed instrument- lyre, kithera
Music as ____ in Ancient Greece
music is numerical, everything is orderly
Apollonian cult
systems, education, temple, sky, sun god, lyre, kithara, ode
Dionysian cult
impulse, intuition, wine, theater, swamp,
dithyramb, aulos
Dithyramb
Birthday song to God dianysus
Ode
Celebration song
Pythagoras
Overtone series discovered, mathamatical
Plato
(380 bc)Republic, God is singular, good modes and bad modes (lydian, locrian and mixolydian bad), all black and white
Aristotle
(350 bc) Politics, can give certain modes for medicine. Dorian=courage, Phrygian=moderation, Lydian=exciting, mixolydian=calm
Aristoxenus
(330 bc)Harmonics. Intervals, tetrachords, scales.
Ethos
the ethical effect of modes (aristotle and plato)
Tetrachords, conjunct, disjunct, proslambanomenos
4 notes in a row in the scale, overlapped note, when notes not connected, extra note (leftover do)
Greater perfect system
Complete tetrachord diagram
Tetrachord genera, Diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic
,BCDE BCisDE BCisDisE, BCDesE, BCesCE
300+300
Jesus, 300 years, Constantine=+, 300 years (gregorian reforms), St. Gall (polyphony)
Edict of Milan 313
Constantine mandated tolerance of Christians
Boethius (institutione musica), Trivium, Quadrivium, Musica
(d 524)invented the idea of 7 liberal arts–>Trivium (Language)- grammar, rhetoric, dialectic–> Quadrivium (Math)- arithmetic, geometry, astronomy/astrology–> Musica- Mundane (music of spheres, way the earth moves), humana (human body), instrumentalis (in notes)
Gregorian reforms
Gregory the Great (d 604), Gregorian chant
Liturgies
Gallican, Mozarabic, Ambrosian, Gregorian
Gallican
used until Charlemagne (d 814) in France
Mozarabic
started with the Council of Toledo 633c, Muslim invasion 8c, 1071–> gregorian, SPAIN/Portugal
Ambrosian
Milan, Italy, Earliest surviving liturgy
Gregorian
Rome, temporale vs. sanctorale
Temporale
during Christ life (only alive temporarily)
Sanctorale
feast of the saints
Liturgical year
Advent(before christs birth), Christmas (christs birth), Epiphany (wisemen journey), lent (advent of easter), passion (christs death, maunday thursday, good friday, and holy saturday [after palm sunday]), easter (resurrection), and pentecost (rest of the church year)
Liturgical offices (services)
Matins (pre dawn), Lauds (dawn)–>[Prime (6am), Terce(9am), Sext (12pm) None (3pm)] Vespers (evening), Compline (late night)
Proper
Depends on the day of the calendar–>Introit..Gradual, Alleluia(tract), (Sequence).Offertory..Communion.
Ordinary
Invariable, happen same way every day–>.Kyrie, Gloria…Credo.Sanctus/Benedictus, Agnus Dei.Dismissal: Ite missa est. Deo gratias)
Order of mass
Introit(p) kyrie(o) gloria(o) gradual(p) alleluia(tract)(p) (Sequence)(p) Credo(o) Offertory(p) Sanctus/Benedictus(o) Agnus Dei(o) Communion(p) Dismissal:Ite missa est. Deo gratias(o)
Guido D’arezzo
Hand diagram, starting on g, going to e, hexachords, gamma-ut
Direct chant
Solo
Responsorial chant
Solo, response
Antiphonal chant
choir, choir
Syllabic text setting
One syllable per note
Neumatic text setting
2-4 (cluster) notes per syllable
Melismatic text setting
many notes per syllable
Psalm recitation
Antiphon, reciting tone, doxology, antiphon
Antiphon
Sentence recited before and after Psalm
Reciting Tone
Psalm
Doxology
Gloria patri et filio, et spiritui sancto. Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.
Introit
Longer antiphon, shorter psalm, doxology only saeculorum Amen
Graduale Romanum
text and music for mass
Missale Romanum
only text for mass
Antiphonale Romanum
text and music for offices
Breviarium Romanum
only text for offices
Liber usualis
All four books (graduale, missale, antiphonale, breviarium)
St. Gall
(9c) Tuotilo–>trope Notker Balbalus–>sequence (got rid of jubilus) Later–> paired versicles
Trope
take a sentence and put a clause in the middle of it “glory be to god, ….., in the highest”
Sequence
put lyrics to all wasted notes of jubilus
Paired versicles
AA’BB’CC’DD’EE’F–(Rhymed couplets, pattern of the sequence)
Cheironomic neume
Neumes (group of notes) in a shallow line
Diastematic neume
Neumes (group of notes), space for words
Offices Mneumonic
My lovely pet turtle seldom notates violin concertos
Neume
a group two to four notes
Single-line
Only one line of notes/neumes
Two line plus clefs
Two lines and clef drawings of notes/neums
Guido d’Arezzo
(11c) Came up with staff, solfege, Ut queant laxis, hand, hexachords (3), B quadrum, B-rotundum, mutation, gamma-ut
Ut queant laxis
chant from which solfege is derived
Hand of Guido
system used to teach chant, starts on G on tip of thumb
Hexachords
6 notes…Natural (no accidentals), Soft (has te/ B flat), Hard (natural B)
B quadrum
Hard b shape (quadrilateral)– turned into natural
B rotundum
Soft b shape (round)– turned into flat
Mutation
mutate into a different hexachord’s solfege
gamma-ut
only the lowest g of the guidonian system
Organum
Parallel, Oblique, Free, St. Martial, Notre Dame
Parallel Organum
voices are parallel, usually in perfect 5ths
Vox organalis
Added voice
Vox principales
Principle voice, unaltered chant
Oblique Organum
begins and ends in unison with parallel middle
Free Organum
VP does chant, VO does whatever the fuck it wants
St. Martial Organum
Principales was held as drone, VO chant like and free
Musica Euchiriadis
Handbook for music (9c)
Scholia Enchuredes
Sequel to Musica Euchiriadis (9c)
Organum Faciendum
How to do Organum (10-11c)
Magnus Liber Organni
Notre Dame… Instructions for Leonin and Perotin. (late 12-early 13c)
Ars Cantus Mensurdriles
Franco of Salon (13c, after Notre Dame)
Notre Dame Organum
Leonin, Perotin… Scrap VP and VO. VP=tenor and VO=extra voices
Leonin
2 voices, Tenor and 1 extra voice (dumplum)
Perotin
2+ voices, Tenor plus 2 or 3 extra voices
Rhythmic mode 5
3+3 (LONG LONG)
Rhythmic mode 1
2+1 (long short)
Rhythmic mode 2
1+2 (short long)
Rhythmic mode 3
3+1+2 (LONG short long)
Rhythmic mode 4
1+2+3 (short long LONG)
Rhythmic mode 6
1+1+1+1+1+1 (short short short short short short)
Motets
3 phases
Phase 1 Motet
Causula + words 1225
Phase 2 Motet
Franconian (Franco of Colon) 1250, upper parts are different text/language
Phase 3 Motet
Petronian 1280, coloratura singer
Polyphonic conductus
Latin poetry not liturgical sometimes sacred
Secular monody
Minstrels
Jongleur
England, 9th century, vernacular language, Rote poetry, Juggling acrobatics dancing magic– Scop and Gleemen, Resident minstrels
Goliard
France, 10-12th c, Latin, Monophonic Conductis, Literate young students/clerics singing about wine girls and song, Carmina Burana
Troubadour
S France, 11-13c, Provencale/langue d’oc, High literacy/chivalry
Trouvere
N France (paris), 12-13c, Medieval French, Unrequited love, Eleanor Aquitaine
Minnesinger
Germany, 12-13c, Middle German, Nature poetry and Love, Walther von der Vogelweide, High level nobility
Meistersinger
Germany, 14-15c, German, Hans Sachs, Rules and regulations, guild members
Canso (poetry)
Love song
Chanson de toile (poetry)
Work song (spinning wheel, song of toil)
Chanson de geste (poetry)
Tale of great hero, style of Homer
Planh (poetry)
Lament of death of nobility
Sirventes (poetry)
Satire, dangerous if insult wrong person
Jeu parti (poetry)
Dialogue song, party!
Pastourelle (poetry)
Knight wooing shepherdess, Rape scene usually, shepherdess grateful (pasture of castle)
Aube (poetry)
“Morning-after” song, Friend guarding canoodling other friends
Spruch (poetry)
German Proverb