Polyphony

public now gets to enjoy printed music more easily because of the techniques by Petrucci and Attaingnant. Music flowed more freely from place to place and the world of music got just a bit smaller. We also talked about how printed music helped promote the artist over the music. When Petrucci published his first collection of motets, artists like Josquin des Prez gained notoriety. What other composer is so well known that all you need is their first name to know who you were talking about. The man became a musical legend, and I think the printing press helped make that happen. His music got to reach far and wide (Burkholder and Palisca 215). Not that he didn't deserve the praise. Josquin was a very talented composer who blended polyphony and homophony so well with the text. He gained notoriety not just because of the printing press. He still had to produce quality works to be taken seriously. Josquin was widely sought for prestigious positions in France and Italy with his last official position working for Louis XII in France (Weiss and Taruskin 99). Many composers have been inspired by Josquin's work, including Martin Luther. We also talked a bit about his influence as well as the increasing connection between the text and the music surrounding the text. These techniques are not new. They were also used in ancient Greece and like many other aspects of this time period, we looked back to those times for artistic inspiration. The Greeks thought the the…

A Reflection on Symposium 2016 This response primarily rests on my view of music and how Dr. Ysaye’s presentation, Symposium 2016: “Our Songs Know Who We Are”, enlarged my experience of the sense of unity I receive in polyphonic music. A large part of my reflection involves my involvement with music in the Unitarian Church and back in Lesotho. First, I will introduce the readers to Alex Pollard, a choir member with cerebral palsy. [1] Second, I will present a Basotho women’s choir during a…

he can scribe for the king no more because his writing was taking him elsewhere. Though servicing for the King did not just give him notable because of his service to John of Luxembourg, Guillaume received benefices from the church as compensation.( Levarie) This wage gave him the ability to leave the service of the king and become a canon of the church in Reims. This is where Guillaume de Machaut settled and began to compose for himself and the church. This begins the stage of Guillaume de…

known from the Middle Ages,” as well as the first “polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer.” Entering into the Renaissance Ages, occurring as early as 1400, the Renaissance Motet and Mass are introduced to sacred music. Although they started being written in the late Medieval Ages, they developed greatly in the Renaissance period, in which they are more associated with. Renaissance Mass is similar to an Ordinary Mass. A motet is defined as “an unaccompanied choral…

Vision and Sound: Polyphony in Orhan Pamuk’s My Name is Red and Vaikom Muhammed Basheer’s Walls The term polyphony, meaning multiple voices, has its origin in Western music. Mikhail Bakhtin, the Russian thinker has adopted the term polyphony to explain the nature of Dostoevsky’s novels. In his Problems of Dostoevsky’s Poetics Bakhtin says that Dostoevsky makes his characters free from his control and allows them to have their own voices. In the same work, Bakhtin later says that…

6 in B flat major”, BWV 1050 written in 1721 is a famous concerto that was composed by Bach and exhibited his polyphonic music texture. In the concerto, there are two viole da braccio, two viole de gamba, cello, violone, and harpsichord. The Concerto is in three movements: allegro, adagio, and allegro. It is important to note that in this concerto there was no use of a violin, which is usually utilized in most compositions. The duration of Concerto No. 6 is approximately sixteen minutes.…

In Caribbean Literature and the Environment: Between Nature and Culture “Landscapes, Narratives, and Tropical Nature: Creole Modernity in Suriname” by Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger she discusses topics such as: Elisabeth Samson, Wilhelmina Rijurg (Maxi Linder), kankantri, polyphony, and polysemy. The conflict is present in Creole modernity in Suriname and tropical nature, because of the narratives that Cynthia McLeod, Clark Accord, and Astrid Roemer present. Elisabeth Samson is an African American…

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…

humanist scholars. Because it was supposed to move listeners, Renaissance music tended to have declamation, meaning that words were set in a natural and intelligible way, similar to speech. Renaissance music was almost entirely vocal, however instruments were more accepted than previous times. Renaissance texture consisted of imitative polyphony with homophony. Imitative polyphony is when there is multiple melodic lines that are similar to each other and have a controlled balance between them.…

service, the congregation sang in chorale style, which was a monophonic rhythmic melody or “religious folk song” that followed an AAB format, with a strophic text. The Protestants used secular music and changed it to be sacred, by changing the text, for their chorales. Now, the Catholic Church didn’t sit by idly during the Reformation. In response to the Reformation, the Catholic Church met at the Council of Trent and decided to have a Counter-Reformation. This Counter-Reformation was to rid…