Middle Ages / Medieval Music (500-1400)



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Middle Ages / Medieval Music (500-1400)

… the time in European history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance (from about 500 a.d. to about 1350): sometimes restricted to the later part of this period (after 1100) and sometimes extended to 1450 or 1500.

… the period in European history between antiquity and the Renaissance, often dated from A.D. 476 to 1453

Adj. Medieval = medi(um) aev(um) “the middle age”

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Liturgy: A particular order or form of public service laid down by a Church

Liturgical Year: also known as the Christian year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons which determines feasts, memorials, commemorations are to be observed and which portions of Scripture are to be read.

Music and the Liturgy

1. Divine Offices or Canonical Hours (not office hours! )

2. Mass

Divine Offices or Canonical Hours

Matins (before daybreak)

Lauds (at sunrise)

Prime (6 a.m.)

Terce (9 a.m.)

*Mass

Sext (Noon)

None (3 p.m.)

Vespers (sunset)

Compline

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Mass



Ordinary: Those texted parts of the Mass that are repeated at each service.

Proper: Those texted parts of the Mass that change to suit a particular day in the liturgical year (i.e., Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, etc.)

Ordinary of the Mass

Kyrie

A: Kyrie eleison

B: Christe eleison

A: Kyrie eleison



Gloria

Credo

Sanctus

A: Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus…

B: Pleni sunt caeli et terra…

B’: Benedictus qui venit…



Agnus Dei

A: Agnus Dei…miserere nobis

A’: Agnus Dei…miserere nobis

A: Agnus Dei…dona nobis pacem



Ite, missa est

Example: Kyrie and Gloria (plainchant) [NAWM 3b-c, CD1/8-12]

Classifying Chant

    1. Text

    2. Manner of Performance

    3. Style

  1. Text:

Biblical

Non-Biblical




  1. Manner of Performance

    1. Directone choir

    2. Antiphonal – two choirs

    3. Responsorial – soloist & choir

  2. Style:

      1. Syllabic – one note per syllable

      2. Neumatic – several notes per syllable

      3. Melismatic – many notes per syllable

Example: Tecum principium (Psalm) [CD 1/24-27]

Text:


  • Biblical & Poetic

  • Antiphonal– two choirs

  • Primarily syllabic

Recitation Formulas

  • Tenor (Tenere = “to hold” or “to sustain”)

  • Psalm Tones

  • Initium

  • Tenor

  • Mediatio

  • Tenor

  • Terminatio

Expansion and Additions to the Liturgy

  • Tropes

  • Sequences

Musical form of the Sequence:

α … AA‘ BB‘ CC' … 



Example: Wipo of Burgundy (ca. 995-ca. 1050), Victimae paschali laudes [NAWM

Secular Song

Jongleurs: A medieval entertainer, sometimes a minstrel. The term covers a range of entertainers and story-tellers.

Troubadours, Trouvères: Lyric poets or poet-musicians of France in the 12th and 13th centuries. Poets working the south of France, writing in Provençal, are generally termed troubadours; those of the north, writing in French, are called trouvères.

Example: Beatriz de Dia, “A chantar” (late 12th century)

  • Strophic song — a song in which all stanzas of poetry are sung to the same music

  • Ends with a tornada, a brief two-line ending

  • Monophonic but accompanied by a vielle

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