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Elements of Music (continued)

Elements of Music (continued). Musical “Style”. Musical “Style”. Characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone, color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form in music The distinctive or unique sound of One composer A group of composers A country A period in history.

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Elements of Music (continued)

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  1. Elements of Music (continued) Musical “Style”

  2. Musical “Style” • Characteristic way of using melody, rhythm, tone, color, dynamics, harmony, texture, and form in music • The distinctive or unique sound of • One composer • A group of composers • A country • A period in history

  3. Historical Musical Style Periods • Middle Ages (450-1450) • Renaissance (1450-1600) • Baroque (1600-1750) • Classical (1750-1820) • Romantic (1820-1900) • 20th century

  4. Music of the Middle Ages Medieval Music (450-1450)

  5. Feudal Society • Three main social classes • Nobles (Kings, Queens, Knights, etc.) • Peasants (Serfs) • Clergy (Church People - priests, monks & nuns)

  6. Knights/Nobility

  7. Clergy

  8. Peasants

  9. Medieval Sacred Music (religious) • Most music in churches • Churches centers of learning, culture, and power • Most important musicians were priests

  10. Gregorian Chant • Prayer music for voices performed in churches; melodies set to sacred Latin texts, sung without accompaniment

  11. Gregorian Chant (continued) • Gregorian Chant was the official music of the Roman Catholic church - “the” church of Medieval Europe • Named for Pope Gregory (590-604) who was reputed to have assembled and standardized all basic chants required for church services of the time

  12. ANONYMOUS - Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam (We have seen the star) • Latin text • Music has “otherworldly” quality • Not in minor or major, but a “church mode” • No beat • Music has “eternal” quality • No “catchy” tune; motives don’t seem to repeat as expected; seems like it will go on forever and forever • Monophony • Uses melismas

  13. Melisma* (not in textbook glossary) • Many notes sung to one syllable of text 7 1 3 4 4 3 4 2 2 1 3 4 5 4 71 3 2 3 Al - le- lu- ia Melismas

  14. ANONYMOUS - Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam (We have seen the star) • Beginning - Solo, then Choir • Alleluia • Middle (verse) - Choir • We have seen his star in the east and are come with gifts to worship the Lord • End - Choir sings beginning phrase • Alleluia

  15. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN - O successores (You successors) • Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) • Abbess of Rupertsberg in Germany • Amazingly talented and influential woman • Religious mystic and philosopher • Diplomat • Wrote poetry, music, and musical drama • Scientist and healer

  16. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN - O successores (You successors) • Latin text • Music has “otherworldly” quality • Not in minor or major, but a “church mode” • No beat • Music has “eternal” quality • No “catchy” tune; motives don’t seem to repeat as expected; seems like it will go on forever and forever • Monophony, performed with a drone • Uses melismas, but less-long that Alleluia chant • Larger pitch range than older Alleluia chant

  17. Drone • Long, sustained note or notes accompanying a melody

  18. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN - O successores (You successors) • “You successors of the mightiest lion between the temple and the altar- You the masters in his household- As the the angles sound forth praises and are here to help the nations, you are among those who accomplish this, forever showing your care in the service of the lamb.”

  19. Medieval Secular Music (Non-religious) • Heard outside church in castles, taverns, and town squares • JONGLEURS • travelling minstrels who performed music and acrobatics for popular entertainment

  20. ANONYMOUS - Estampie • Strong, regular BEAT (dance music) • Fast triple meter • 3 instruments • Rebec (bowed string) • Pipe (wind) • Psaltery (plucked string) • Monophony (rebec & pipe) with drone (psaltery) • Repetitive sounding; “catchy”

  21. Important Musical Development in Middle Ages around 900 A.D. Birth of Polyphony

  22. Organum (pl. Organa) • Medieval polyphony that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines

  23. Architectural Layers = Layers of Chant or Organum

  24. Birth of Polyphony

  25. Notre Dame Cathedral Paris, France

  26. GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT - (1377-1377) • French composer • Educated as priest • Mostly worked as court official • Wrote sacred and secular music

  27. GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT - Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass • Agnus Dei part of MASS • MASS - sacred choral composition made up of five sections • Kyrie (Lord have mercy) • Gloria (Glory to God in the highest) • Credo (I believe in one God) • Sanctus (Holy, holy, holy, Lord of Hosts) • Agnus Dei (Lamb of God)

  28. GUILLAUME DE MACHAUT - Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass • Written for 4 voices • NON-IMITATIVE POLYPHONY • 3 sections = 3 lines of text each closed by cadences • “Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis”(Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us) • “Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi: miserere nobis”(Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, have mercy on us • “Agnus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi: dona nobis pacem”(Lamb of God, who take away the sins of the world, grant us peace) • Chant stretched out in tenor voice • Upper voices have faster melodies with syncopation • Regular BEAT • Harmony has dissonant parts

  29. BENART DA VENTADORN - La douza votz (The sweet voice) • Troubadour song • Monophony (voice) with improvised drone accompaniment (plucked string) • “I have heard the sweet voice of the woodland nightingale and my heart springs up so that all the cares and the grievous betrayals love has given me are softened and sweetened; and I would thus be rewarded, in my ordeal, by the joys of others…”

  30. BENART DA VENTADORN - La douza votz (The sweet voice) • “In truth, every man leads a base life who does not dwell in the land of joy…” • “One who is false, deceitful, of low breeding, a traitress has betrayed me, and betrayed herself…”

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