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when was monophonic chant with no notation?

500-800

when was monophonic chant with notation?

800-900

Polyphony

Music with more than one line, starts with organum in 900

Organum

Adding additional lines over preexisting music


900

Organal Voice

The added voice in organum

Parallel Organum

note for note, perfect intervals


900-1050

Free Organum

note for note, parallel, oblique, and contrary motion between two lines


1050-1150

Florid/Melismatic Organum

1150-1250


-original line held out longer and added voice changes


-original line now called tenor (to hold)


-added (organal) line now called duplum


-Aquitainian Polyphony (France) and Notre Dame Polyphony (Paris)


-Saint Martial school and Notre Dame school

Melisma

Duplum sings florid lines with many pitches over the tenor

Liturgical music

music written for a specific function, not just for art

Notre Dame Organum

1150-1250


-measured organum


-notated rhythm


-Discant Clausula, tenor moves fast/lively, steady rhythm

Discant Clausula

tenor moves faster in a steady rhythm

Leonin and Perotin

1200-1230


-teacher and student, led Notre Dame polyphony


-start of 4-part organum

Magnus Liber

book of music written by Leonin and expanded by Perotin, who wrote first quadruplum, 4-voice organum

Early Motet

-added text to duplum of discant clausula


-mixes secular and sacred text


-becomes major form of composition


-borrowed tenor line called cantus firmus

Ars Nova

1320-1400


-music movement in France that added many developments compared to Notre Dame polyphony


-reaches Italy from France


-mensural notation and isorhythm

Mensural notation

1320-1600


has meter and allows for advanced rhythms


Isorhythm

rhythmic cycle repeats and melody cycle repeats

Guillaume de Machaut

1300-1377


-Messe de Nostre Dame, masterpiece, best isorhythmic motet


-first composer we know about because he kept his work