Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

among them—indeed, between any two of them. There are also distinct, recognized local or geographical “dialec ...

psalmody. Since they were never mediated by Frankish editors, the Ambrosian melodies conform only vag ...

users. This is called the principle of autonomy, and it is pretty universally regarded today as a requiremen ...

to stimulate them because of some mysterious relationship between the two,” he maintains a special guard “n ...

CHAPTER 3 Retheorizing Music NEW FRANKISH CONCEPTS OF MUSICAL ORGANIZATION AND THEIR EFFECT ON COMPOSITION MUS ...

the construction of “laboratory instruments” called monochords (later to be described in more detail) for demo ...

One who has mastered Musica, Boethius concluded, and only such a one, can truly judge the work of a mu ...

invented any sort of neumatic notation, at first took the form of prefaces and appendices to the earl ...

(Ex. 3-1). EX. 3-1 The four species of fifth and the “four finals” The ending notes of these four species-de ...

borrowed from Boethius, the authority of authorities. Boethius had adopted these names from late Gree ...

finals” and their concomitant scales represent nothing more than the most convenient way of notating intervallic ...

recurs after G and so on, was established by an anonymous Milanese treatise of ca. 1000 called Dialogus de ...

that had somehow to be committed to melodic memory. Modal theory was thus one of the very many aspects of med ...

than does the upper neighbor to the fifth above; hence we may conceptualize the octave species with the ...

next phrase of the original chant. That is what happens in Hucbald’s second, third, and fourth phrases, ...

“Psallite regi,” the little prefatory trope shown in Ex. 2-8a, resolutely closes the gap. It begins on E, p ...

end, so to speak, can now fulfill the implications of the beginning). It sounds the B above the final so that ...

ecstatic, these are dynamic, strongly etched, and therefore highly memorable (as congregational songs need to ...

the continuations of the first and last “Christe” phrases. This brings about another playful switch of funct ...

element of metrical verse, eventually replete with rhyme. Settings of such texts, especially rhymed metrical ...