Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
FIG. 12-4 Opening of Ockeghem’s Missa caput from the so-called Chigi Codex (Vatican City, Biblioteca ...
of terms, he designated three musical styles, calling them magnus, mediocris, and parvus: great (= high- ranking or ...
We cannot tell when that decisive moment occurred; all we can know are its first preserved fruits. One ...
structural divisions of the chant. The break between Leonel’s two major sections occurs in the middle of a li ...
extant sections of the Mass, without the slightest modification. This, of course, is the isorhythmic principle ...
“CAPUT” AND THE BEGINNINGS OF FOUR-PART HARMONY The direct adoption from the English of the cyclic Mass as the ...
votive service but a cathedral Mass attended by dignitaries and magnates in force (precisely the kind of s ...
than the “second tenor” below. Indeed, at its peaks it even crosses the cantus at times—sometimes quite dramatical ...
EX. 12-4B The Caput melisma Although the sources that include the anonymous Caput Mass retain the nomenclature ...
bass (SATB)—and can see how the word tenor, originally the “holding part” (which, in cantus firmus Masses, it s ...
virtually every final cadence from the mid-fifteenth century on. They admitted considerable variation from ...
HOW CONTROVERSIES ARISE (AND WHAT THEY REVEAL) The essential difference between these two concepts of pitc ...
cynically, an error is something with which one can deceive. This particular genetic fallacy—to reduce the “to ...
The reasons for the freedom had to do with a necessary compression. The anonymous English Caput Kyrie, as Englis ...
placement puts the superius and tenor—the “structural pair” as they were regarded by composers and theo ...
to what he knew and we don’t, namely the earlier author’s identity. They show dragons—dragons galore. In th ...
Masses by Ockeghem—works with which his historical reputation, for better or worse, is indissolubly bound up. One ...
The other famous Ockeghem star turn is the Missa cuiusvis toni, the “Mass in any mode.” It is notated ...
EX. 12-8C Johannes Ockeghem, Missa cuiusvis toni, Kyrie I, pitched on F (Lydian) EX. 12-8D Johannes Ock ...
was experienced as a reward. To which it only need be added that like any trobar clus, the Masses of O ...
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