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Ars Nova
1320-1400
Book by Phillipe de Vitry
3 Popes
Emphasis on Human Instead of Gd
Roman de Fauvel-Mauchaut
Isorhythm
Secular Polyphony
Conductus
Old:Monophonic
Accompany Semi Liturgical Procession
Syllabic matches Poetry
New:12th Cent (Magnus Liber)
Song w/ Latin Text (Sec/Sac)
Strophic
Rhythmic Modes
Monoph/Polyph (low voices=textless)
cauda=melisma at beg/end
Consonance
@Magnus Liber
Perfect:4,5,8
Imperfect:3
Dissonance
@Magnus Liber
Dissonance:2,6,7
Tritone:Lateral Only, Not Vertical
Cadences
Notre Dame:6to8
Mauchaut: 2LeadTone(Up2,.5+,Ten-1)
Half cadences:1-3,1-5,1-8
Whole:Unison
Florid Organum/Aquitanian Polyphony
Florid Org:
Melismas over Tenor (notes/neumes)
Penultimate Syllable & Last Line
Aquitanian (1100-1200):
Eleanor de Aquitain
Discant:NEUME TO NEUME & 1:1
Through Composed
Formes Fixes
Ballade, Virelai, Rondeau
Courtly Love=Fin Amor
Secular Songs
ALL 2 SECTIONS
Ars Nova Period
Mauchaut
Ballade
Ballade:
aa(b+C) or aab(b+C)
M wrote 40
7-8 lines per Stanza
1-4 voices (usually 2[old]-3[new])
top voice=text
sometimes polytext/isorhythm
very melismatic
short melodic/rhythmic motifs
MUSICAL RHYME
melisma @ penultimate
Virelai
most monophonic
AbbaAbbaAbbaA
6:8 but Mauchaut swings both ways!
syllabic/clear verse
2 voices, text in cantus
Rondeau
ABaAabAB
Adam de la Halle
8 lines, 1 stanza
ALL POLYPHONIC
cantus carries text
old:cantus middle, newer:cantus top
Franconian Motet
Franco de Cologne 1250-1280
fixed rhythmic values and note shapes
tenor, motetus (crosses), triplum
triplum
2-3 subbreves
Hocket
Hiccup in Latin
Two voices in alternate notes
ah-ah-ah
Motets w/o words
Usually tenor comes from chant
Instrumental and Vocal
Died quickly but HOCKETINE passages
Isorrhythm, Isorhythmic Motet,Talea, Color
Ars Nova
upper voices in Latin
mostly occurs in tenor
sometimes new tenor melody
occasional/ political satire
more note lengths
triple and duple
PITCH AND RHYTHM INDPNDNT
Color:Pitch Pattern
Talea:Rhythmic Pattern
not synced usually
Rhythm Diminuition and Palindrome
Leonin aka Leoninus aka Master Leo
born 1135
Notre Dame School
Notre Dame Administrator
Magnus Liber
only changed graduales, alleluias&responsories
cadences on perfect consonances
cadences: 2 to 1 or 7 to 8
Historiae Sacrae
Homoerotic Poetry
Perotin aka Perotinus
nothing is known about him
Revised Magnus Liber
wrote a lot of clausulae
used rhythm
Messe de Notre Dame
written by Mauchaut
first composer to write complete mass
Sat at Marian mass in Rheims
in honor of him and brothter John
Endowment
all proper parts of mass
4 voices
duple&triple meter
G&C conductus, syllabic sectional, strong cadences
double leading tone CADENCE popular in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, in which the bottom voice moves down a WHOLE TONE and the upper voices move up a SEMITONE, forming a major third and major sixth expanding to an open fifth and octave.
Kyrie AD, Sanctus motet
musica ficta
Monophony, Polyphony, Homophony, Heterophony
Mono=1 voice
Poly=many voices
homo=1 voice multiple musicians
hetero=homo with changes in some voices
Neumes
Groups of 2-3 notes sung together to indicate melodic direction or specific direction
Organum (Parallel, Oblique, Note-Against Note)
Parallel-harmony below melody moved in pararallel motion usually 5ths
Oblique upper voice moves while vox princip sustains long tones
Note against note-later can become neume against neume
Organum purum, copula, discant, clausula
organum purum-neither part rhythmicized (free organum)
long tones on vox principales
Leonin
consonance determined note length penultimate long
Organum duplum-purum melisma over sustained tones
discant-old note against note new rhythmicized
copula-bastard child of other two
rhythm both melodic sequences on top
bottom chant
clausula-Perotinus
chunk to be inserted into chant
polyphonic 2-4
complex, repetition echoe manipulate tenor
Phillipe de Vitry
wrote Ars Nova
poet, composer, music theorist
administrator/advisor 3 french kings
diplomat
bishop
wrote Roman de Fauvel with Gervais du Bus, and Chaillou de Pestain
Rhythmic Modes
1=Ls
2=sL
3=L+sL
4=sLL+
5=L+
6=sss
Roman de Fauvel
Phillipe de Vitry, Gervais du Bus, and Chaillou de Pestain
ass becomes king of the world
Flattery, Avarice, Deceit, Variability, Eny, Cowardice
150+ compositions
Latin/French mon/poly
chant to isorythmic mote
Sequence
rhyming couplets
syllabc
began as melismatic trope to alleluia
850-1000: small groups, equal couplets w/o meter or rhyme
first and last line single
irregular rhythm
each couplet=new music
modal, ends on reciting or final
NOTKER BALBULUS 840-912
1000-1150 w/ meter or rhym
rigid rhythm
recurring metrical patern
short neumes/melodic motifs
Adam of St. Victor 10801150
Trope
add music/music&words
introductions/interpolations
like glossing
sung by soloist
interpolations echo or anticipate phrases which precede them
Troubadour/Trouveres/Trobaritz/Jongleur
Troubadour-Southern France
1000-1150
composers
all classes of society
Bernart de Ventadorn
Jongleurs-lower class
very little of their stuff
Old French
1100-1200
Trouveres/Troubaritz
more stuff from them
Adam de la Halle
Can vei la lauzeta mover
Bernart de Ventadorn-duchess of normany to queen of England, monk
1140-1190
canso
ababcdcdx7+t
8lines 8 syllables 7 stanzas
in dorian
simple melody stays mostly in lower 5th cadences on A
neumes on first or penultimate
divided half phrases D cadence
t=tornada .5 stanza addressed to someone (tristan)
lark
Viderunt Omnes (Leonin)
organum duplum-purum
discant
from magnus Liber
2 voices
Gradual for Christmas and Circumcision
Viderunt Omnes (Perotin)
4 voices
Gradual for Christmas and Circumcision
quadrupla
in copula and discant
voice exchange
shorter more regular phrases
less modal fluctuation (mostly 1)
top 3 parts in same rhythm with some modal subdivision
repeat motifs at different pitches
cadences on perfect consonances
Puer natus est
Introit for Christmas Day
antiphone-psalm-lesser dox-antiphone
antiphone-neumatic
psalm/lesser dox-syllabic
Mixolydian
Kyrie Cunctipotens Genitor
3x each part (numerology)
melismatic
Dorian
sung antiphonally beginning with soloist
Viderunt Omnes Gradual
Christmas Day
responsorial like all graduals
soloist psalm choir respond
Lydian
Alleluia Te Martyrum
from Winchester Troper (~1000)
vox organalis below principalis but VOICE CROSSING
more flexible (dissonances)
Feast for Two Martyrs
cadences on unison
spread to up to V
note against note organum
Alleluia Spiritus Sanctus
sacred
responsorial
PENTECOST
Magnus Liber (Leonin) 1150-1200
intonation (organum) cadence on U,I,V
2 copulas
Jubilus-choir
Spiritus Sanctus-Org,Cop, Disc
Flos ut rosa florui
Conductus
late 12th
13th cent
NEWLY COMPOSED NO CONNECTION TO PLAINCHANT
sacred (not liturgical) Christmas
rhythmic mode 1
consonant intervals
2 voices move together
melismatic cauda at end penultimate
latin poetry 4 couplets
Aucun ont trouve/Lonc tans/ Annuntiantes
Petronion Motet late 13th cent
attributed to Petrus de Cruce
tenor mode 5+rests
thematic theme courtly love
tenor color twice but dimunition
motetus-overlaps w/ tenor 2nd half very long phrases (no rests)
triplum-fast 2-7 semibreves
cadences-V,VIII
top 2 voices texted
Douce playsence/ Garison selon nature/ Neuma quinti toni
Phillipe de Vitry (1300-1350)
1320
Isorythmic Motet
Mode 5
rhythmic interplay duple and triple
Tenor:1 color:4 talea
4 cadences consonant except 3
a little isorhythm in top parts
Honte Paour Doubtance
Ballade
3 voices cantus, tenor contratenor
mid career