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| Recognized that music had relation to math. Ratio in the length of hammer is related to the sound. |
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| Thought music had a powerful effect on the psyche. hought music was very serious and should be cautioned. |
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| Thought music was for enjoyment and entroduced idea of music education. |
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1. Musica Mundana (of the universe)
2. Musica Humana (of body)
3. Musica Instrumentalis (of voice or musical instruments)
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-Edict of Milan: Chants recite passages on a tone.
-Legalized Christianity.
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-Lectic
-Gallic
-Old Roman
-Mozarabic
-Beneventian
-Ambrosian
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-established by Pope Gregory I
-Created consistency of servoces
Characteristics:
-Monophonic
-Free rhythm
Medieval Modes used
-Genres: Recitation, Antiphonal
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| Encouraged the written documentation of music |
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-Students of monastaries
-Had patrons
-Varied subject matter(nobles vs. commoners)
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-From the South of France
-Nobility
-Played the lute
-Used Joglar (Chansons de gest)
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-Courtly Love
-the idea of hopeless love
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Troubadour poetry
serious, sad, hopeless love
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Troubadour poetry
more playful
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Troubadour poetry
used secret code (women = flower, husband = jealous one)
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-Canso (trobar clos)
-Alba(Dawn song)(Trobar Leu)
-Plahn (lament)(Trobar clos)
-Tenso(Contest/Dialogue) (Trobar Leu)
-Sirventes (Servant song) (Praised greatness of master)
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| is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech |
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imitating speech was the most important thing
not too mant ornaments because it could be distracting
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-a group of humanists, musicians, poets and intellectuals in late Renaissance Florence who gathered under the patronage of Count Giovanni de’ Bardi to discuss and guide trends in the arts, especially music and drama
-Thought having a soloist and basso continuo was more relaisic
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-there’s a bass line
-harpsichord or organ on chords
-clarifies harmony
-simple accompaniment
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| Stresed importance of using the vernacular language(Italian) |
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-word paintings
-expressed the text and phrases
-through composed
-secular
-4-8 voices
-high quality poetry
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-“Io Parto”
-prince under house arrest
-expressionist
chromaticism and dissonace
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-“Cruda Amarilli”
-LAST GREAT MADRIGAL WRITTER, FIRST GREAT OPERA WRITER
-Got into a fight with Giovanni Artusi over breaking contrapuntal rules
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-“split choir”
-St. Mark’s Basillica
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-performed in court
-repeating pitch and rhythm patter, voices interrupt each other
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-singing two different lines of music
-Vox Principalis(tenor) and Vox Organalis
-Only sung by soloists and for special church occasions
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| both lines move independant of each other |
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-Magnus Liber Organi=four voices
-switch from floid organum to discant organum
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-Leonin’s student
-3 and 4 part organum
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-two different music lines, texts, languages, themes
-confusing at times
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| counterpoint is the relationship between voices that are harmonically interdependent (polyphony), but independent in rhythm and contour. |
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