The Classical Music Book

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W hat is now known as Western Classical music evolved from the music of the medieval Church in Europe, which in turn had its roo ...

and in the 11th century a system of differently shaped dots written on a staff of four or more horizontal lines was established ...

22 PSALMODY IS THE WEAPON OF THE MONK PLAINCHANT ( 6 th–9th CENTURY), ANONYMOUS T he early Christian Church began as a Jewish se ...

23 This Gregorian chant, Hodie Cantandus (“today we must sing”), by St. Tuotilo, a 10th-century Irish monk, has neumes on the up ...

24 M odern Western musical notation has its origins in Europe’s monasteries at the end of the first millennium. The earliest mus ...

25 Italian monk and music theorist Guido d’Arezzo wears a laurel wreath in a portrait painted by Antonio Maria Crespi in the ear ...

26 O ne of the most original voices in sacred music of the early Middle Ages was that of the female cleric Hildegard of Bingen i ...

EARLY MUSIC 1000–1400 27 See also: Le jeu de Robin et de Marion 32–35 ■ Messe de Notre Dame 36–37 ■ Missa l’homme armé 42 ■ The ...

28 TO SING IS TO PRAY TWICE MAGNUS LIBER ORGANI (c.1170), LÉONIN T he development of polyphony (richly layered music for multipl ...

29 See also: Plainchant 22–23 ■ Micrologus 24–25 ■ Messe de Notre Dame 36–37 ■ Canticum Canticorum 46–51 ■ Monteverdi’s Vespers ...

30 singers in order that this kind of minstrelish and wanton music may be heard in his church, I believe that he becomes contami ...

31 Pérotin, called Perotin Magister (“Pérotin the Master”) by Anonymous IV, is believed to have lived from c.1160–1230. He is pi ...

32 TANDARADEI, SWEETLY SANG THE NIGHTINGALE LE JEU DE ROBIN ET DE MARION (1280–1283), ADAM DE LA HALLE D iverse musical traditio ...

33 See also: Missa l’homme armé 42 ■ Water Music 84–89 ■ Musique de table 106 ■ The Magic Flute 134 –137 ■ Die schöne Müllerin 1 ...

34 Robin. The titular characters perform the bulk of the music, in monophonic songs that de la Halle created by setting his own ...

35 lesser entertainers were manifold, and their activities were varied. In southern Europe, a musician might go by the title of ...

36 MUSIC IS A SCIENCE THAT MAKES YOU LAUGH, SING, AND DANCE MESSE DE NOTRE DAME (c. 1360–1365), GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT T he 14th c ...

37 See also: Magnus liber organi 28–31 ■ Missa l’homme armée 42 ■ Missa Pange lingua 43 ■ Canticum Canticorum 46–51 ■ Monteverdi ...

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