Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

Not only jazz performers, but classical ones, too, copy the performances of famous artists from recordin ...

learns it from the printed page. Its utterly forgotten lead-in verse puts the famous chorus in the mouth of ...

Psalm and lection tones like these are very ancient. They carry a whiff of the origins of music, at ...

accommodating most of them), the antiphon is a moderately neumatic chant, in which nine of the twenty- ...

No fewer than four stichic settings of the Justus ut palma verse are found in the original Gregorian co ...

compound neumes in the Introit (justus, palma, multiplicabitur, plus the Paschal alleluia) now carry full- fl ...

EVIDENCE OF “ORAL COMPOSITION” The repetitions that give the Alleluia setting its striking shape are memorab ...

EX. 1-7B Haec dies (Easter Gradual) It is easy to show (here, by bracketing them) that these two chants ...

developments that took place before there were any means of documenting them, an answer to this questio ...

of scale and final was originally the product of Frankish and Italian music theory of the tenth and eleventh cen ...

FIG. 1-8 Illustration from a thirteenth-century manuscript of a famous music treatise by John of Cott ...

EX. 1-9B Deduction of the diatonic pitch set by fifths BEGINNINGS, AS FAR AS WE KNOW THEM This new “beginni ...

FIG. 1-9 Harpist in the garden of Sennacherib, shown in a neo-Assyrian bas-relief from the palace at Nini ...

FIG. 1-10 Attic Greek amphora (jar), ca.490 B.C.E., showing someone singing to a lyre. Greek music theory ...

as its main sphere of musical creativity, the Eastern Orthodox church emphasized hymnody, newly composed “songs ...

As these very old melodies suggest, there are many ways of patterning and embellishing the diatonic pit ...

CHAPTER 2 New Styles and Forms FRANKISH ADDITIONS TO THE ORIGINAL CHANT REPERTORY LONGISSIMAE MELODIAE Amalar (or A ...

This passage from Amalar recalls the famous words in which St. Augustine, five hundred years earlier, had ex ...

PROSA Like the jubilus itself, the early sequentia vocalises—sung on the word “Alleluia” but so melismatic as to ...

EX. 2-2B Prosulae to the neuma triplex, Rex regum EX. 2-3 Prosulated version of Alleluia, Justus ut palma ...