Western Civilization Question 5
Western civilization earliest music began with the social religious development that took place in Europe during the middle Ages between 500-1400 AD. The Catholic Church’s chants dominated at this time with their sacred music known as the Gregorian chant. This sacred music gradually developed into polyphonic music known as organum. However, secular music also flourished from Trouveres and Troubadours, until it was crowned with secular compositions of the first true genius of western music regarded as Guillaume de Machaut (Organ, 2001).
However, the Gregorian chant was developed from early Christian music which was derived from existing Jewish and Byzantine religious chant. Gregorian chant is sung prayer. The …show more content…
The resulting sound is called the organum. In the eleventh century, two melodic lines were added and the music was no longer a parallel motion. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries experienced two composers at Notre Dame; Leonin who composed organa for two voices while his successor, Perotin, included three and four voices to his organa. Pérotin's music became a good example of this very early form of polyphony (music for two or more simultaneously sounding voices).
Furthermore, in the thirteenth century, Francesco Landini composed a new kind of texture polyphony where the two voices sing differently melodic lines at the same time and both are equally vital. Gulliaume de Machaut in his composition of medieval art of courtly love, expanded the polyphony texture from two to three voices. He was one of the earliest best composers to create a polyphonic texture for the Catholic Mass’ sacred songs, these included the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. Finally, the new polyphonic texture led the way for the flowering of choral music in the Renaissance (Bonds, 2015, p. 16-25, 43).
Reference:
Bonds, M. E. (2015). Listen To This. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
Kerman, J., & Tomlinson, G. (2015). Listen. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Organ J.R (2001). The Middle
Western civilization earliest music began with the social religious development that took place in Europe during the middle Ages between 500-1400 AD. The Catholic Church’s chants dominated at this time with their sacred music known as the Gregorian chant. This sacred music gradually developed into polyphonic music known as organum. However, secular music also flourished from Trouveres and Troubadours, until it was crowned with secular compositions of the first true genius of western music regarded as Guillaume de Machaut (Organ, 2001).
However, the Gregorian chant was developed from early Christian music which was derived from existing Jewish and Byzantine religious chant. Gregorian chant is sung prayer. The …show more content…
The resulting sound is called the organum. In the eleventh century, two melodic lines were added and the music was no longer a parallel motion. The twelfth and thirteenth centuries experienced two composers at Notre Dame; Leonin who composed organa for two voices while his successor, Perotin, included three and four voices to his organa. Pérotin's music became a good example of this very early form of polyphony (music for two or more simultaneously sounding voices).
Furthermore, in the thirteenth century, Francesco Landini composed a new kind of texture polyphony where the two voices sing differently melodic lines at the same time and both are equally vital. Gulliaume de Machaut in his composition of medieval art of courtly love, expanded the polyphony texture from two to three voices. He was one of the earliest best composers to create a polyphonic texture for the Catholic Mass’ sacred songs, these included the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. Finally, the new polyphonic texture led the way for the flowering of choral music in the Renaissance (Bonds, 2015, p. 16-25, 43).
Reference:
Bonds, M. E. (2015). Listen To This. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Education Inc.
Kerman, J., & Tomlinson, G. (2015). Listen. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s.
Organ J.R (2001). The Middle