Vere Dignum
-plainchant
-reciting tone
-three sentences, in phrases, last phrase in lower reciting tone.
– preface for mass on Whit Sunday
In Paradisum
-plainchant
-Gregorian antiphon
– sung during buriel procession
– In Mixolydian mode (G)
Columba Aspexit
– Artist: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
-plainchant
-honored Saint Maximinus
-belongs to late medieval genre called sequence
– solist and choir parts
– recording includes drone
La Dousa Votz
Artist: Bernart de Ventadorn (1135-1194)
– troubadour song
-written in Provencal
– in G mode
-string instruments, single singer
-fast tempo
Alleluia Diffua Est Gratia
Artist: Perotin (the Great)c. 1200
-starts with Gregorian Plainchant, then goes into the organum
– early polyphony, organum
Ave Maris Stella
Artist: Guillaume Dufay (1400 – 1474)
homophonic hymn.only even stanzas are Guillaume’s music., uses paraphrase
Quant En Moi
Guillaume De Machaut(1300-1377) – motet
plainchant repeated, with two love poems, with faster
Pange Lingua Mass: Qui Tollis from Gloria
Josquin Deprez imitative polyphony
polyphony, then homophony, then
Pange Lingua Mass: Kyrie
Josquin Deprez 1450- 1521
monophony then point of immitation
Pope Marcellus Mass: Gloria
Giovanni pierluigi da palestrina 1525 – 1594 written in 1557
more homophony
Kemp’s Jig
anonymous
Weelkes: As Vesta was from Latmos Hill Descending
thomas weelkes 1575- 1623
english madrigal
Gui
antiphon
simplest genre of plainchant
troubadours
poet-composers who came from south france
trouveres
poet composers from north of france
minnesingers
poet composers from germany
organum
traditional plainchant melody with a another melody in counterpoint sung simultaneously to same words
motet
like organum, but upper lines given own words
isorhythm
successive lengthy passages with similar rhythms but different melodies
isorhythm
successive lengthy passages with similar rhythms but different melodies
hocket
places in song where you can hear rhythmic repetitions
paraphrase
embellishing plainchant by adding notes
homophony
harmonic texture, polyphonic, but voices move together and form chords
chansons
simpler styles of polyphonic songs often used for sacred texts
mass music
kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, agnus dei
declamation
rhythms and melodies are approximately set to normal speech.
madrigal
one stanza poem with rapid turnover of ideas an images