Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century

EX. 3-7B Dies irae (Requiem) Dies irae (“Day of wrath”), from the Requiem Mass (Ex. 3-7b), is probab ...

medieval liturgical songs, and a very late one. It may even be a thirteenth-century composition, for ...

cross we bear”), composed about a hundred years earlier. Mixing and matching texts and tunes (especially ne ...

sensory impressions (specially implicating the sense of smell), conspire to produce an immensity of feeling one assoc ...

LITURGICAL DRAMA Hildegard’s largest work is a play with music called Ordo virtutum (“The enactment of ...

extant example of what is now called the “morality play,” a form of allegorical drama (chiefly popular betw ...

the first of these conducti, to the verse Astra tenenti/cunctipotenti, which accompanies the entrance of King ...

EX. 3-11B The Play of Daniel, Heu heu (Daniel’s lament) ...

At first the Marian antiphons were sung, like the psalms, in a weekly cursus. In the modern liturgy, only ...

EX. 3-12B Marian antiphon, Salve, Regina Salve Regina is dark. Like so many late Dorian chants it cover ...

did many other troubadours. EX. 3-13 Raimon de Miraval, Aissi cum es genser pascors Raimon’s canso begins, ...

The tetrachord beginning with the first note, C, gives the beginning of the Mixolydian scale as well as ...

14 ). So well does it fit the pedagogical bill that scholars now suspect that Guido actually wrote ...

In order to gain an ut at the bottom on which to begin the first set of voces, Guido placed a G belo ...

FIG. 3-6 The “Guidonian hand” as represented in a thirteenth-century Bavarian manuscript. Armed with the memo ...

take place impersonally, without direct oral/aural contact, music became that much less a process or ...

CHAPTER 4 Music of Feudalism and Fin’ Amors THE EARLIEST LITERATE SECULAR REPERTORIES: AQUITAINE, FRANCE, IBE ...

AQUITAINE TROUBADOURS The earliest secular repertories of which we have direct knowledge consist of songs by kn ...

The granting of a fief created the relationship of lord (or suzerain) and vassal. The bond thus created ...

FIG. 4-1 Medieval lutenist, from an illumination in a thirteenth-century manuscript now at the Biblioteca ...