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Announcements. Activity 1 due 1/30. Play of the Virtues. Style: Originally monophonic Wide range Distinction between the different voices in musical style?. Secular Music. Travelling entertainers: Goliards and jougleures (mostly lower classes)
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Announcements • Activity 1 due 1/30
Play of the Virtues • Style: • Originally monophonic • Wide range • Distinction between the different voices in musical style?
Secular Music • Travelling entertainers: Goliards and jougleures (mostly lower classes) • Musician-poets: Troubadors (Trouveres, Trobaritz)
Troubadours,Trouvères • Troubadours: southern France • Language: Provençal • Trouvères: Northern France • Language: Old French • Members of the upper classes • Courtly Love theme • Unattainable woman on a pedestal
Trouvère song • Ce fut en mai (Listening Guide 4) • Composer:Moniot d’Arras (fl. 1213-39) • Originally monophonic • On recording, accompanied by Medieval stringed instruments (vielle, psaltery, dulcimer)
Trouvère song • Meter? • Triple • Form? • Strophic form • each verse is AABB • Corresponds loosely to rhyme scheme
Ars Nova-14th-c. France • Means “New skill” • What was new about it? • Innovations in rhythm and notation
Guillaume Machaut • Most important 14th-century composer • Wrote poetry, songs. • Songs are polyphonic • Songs in fixed forms (very specific relationships between poetry and music) • Music follows form of poetry
Machaut song • Puis qu’en oubli (listening guide 5) • Text on Courtly love theme • Musical form • RONDEAUX form • A B aA ab A B • Capital letters are repetitions of text and music • Small letters are musical repetitions with a new text • Corresponds to rhyme scheme
Instrumental music • Largely improvised • Categories: • Soft (stringed instruments) • Vielle • Loud (wind instruments) • Shawm (ancestor of modern oboe) • Sackbut (ancestor of modern trombone • Also had percussion and organs
Instrumental Music • Royal estampie #4 (listening guide 6) • Originally monophonic, new parts added in this recording (mainly a drone). • Open and closed endings