Definitions
What is a motet?
Clausula independent from its larger piece.
3 genres found in Form Fixes
Virelai
Ballade
Rondeau
Tropes, Sequences, and Liturgical Dramas
NAWM 6A, 6B, or 7
6A-Victimae paschali laudes; sequence (genre); early 1000s
6B-Dies irae; sequence (genre); early 1200s
7-Hildegard of Bingen, Ordo virtutum; sacred music drama (genre); ca. 1151
The Ars Nova: Isorhythm and Paraphrase
NAWM 24 or 25
24-Philippe de Vitry; motet (genre); ca. 1320
25-Guillaume de Machaut; La Messe de Nostre Dame; polyphonic mass cycle (genre); ca. 1364
Name the Boethius Foundations of Music (500 C.E.)
1. Musica Mundana: Cosmos
2. Musica Humana : Soul
3. Instrumentalis: Instrument
What is discant?
Fast section of an Organum
What are the types of love expressed by troubadours?
Fine amour
Courtly Love
Chivalry love
Medieval Song and Dance
NAWM 8, 9, or 13
8-Bernart de Ventadorn, troubadour song (genre), ca. 1170–80
9-Comtessa de Dia, troubadour song (genre), late 1100s
13-estampie (genre), late 1200s
The Ars Nova: The Formes fixes
NAWM 26 or 27
26- Guillaume de Machaut; virelai (genre); mid 1300s
27-Guillaume de Machaut; rondeau (genre); mid 1300s
How are psalms sung? and what is the form?
How- Antiphonally
Formula -Final-Reciting Tone-Final
Virelai Definition
type of song with refrain
What derived from the Alleluia?
Sequences
Early Organum
NAWM 15 or 16
15- note-against-note organum (genre), ca. 1100
16-Aquitanian polyphony (genre), ca. 1100
Italian Trecento Music
NAWM 29 or 31
29 -Jacopo da Bologna; madrigal (genre); ca. 1350
31-Francesco Landini; ballata (genre); late 1300s
Troubadour Definition
poet composers who flourished in 1200's France and spoke Provencal
What is a Hocket
When one voice alternates rapidly with another voice
4 Evidences of Music History
1. Musical Notation
2. Writings/Essays about music
3. Iconography: images/art about music
4. Artifacts: surviving instruments
Notre Dame Polyphony
NAWM 17 or 19
17-Leoninus, Viderunt omnes; organum duplum (genre), late 1100s
19-Perotinus, Viderunt omnes; organum quadruplum (genre); ca. 1198
What is a Landini Cadence
Underthird Cadence
Chanssonier Definition
Troubadour song book
(Troubadour = poet composer)
In the thirteenth-century motet, which term is used for the voice singing the borrowed chant material>
Cantus Firmus
What is a defining aspect of a motet?
Borrowed chant material in the tenor
The Thirteenth-Century Motet
NAWM 21
21-Adam de la Halle; motet (genre); ca. 1260s–80s
Doctrine of Imitation
Music imitates the character (ethos) of the soul
Jongleurs Definition
A Social Outcast in Musical Service to a Lord (Like a king's joker but musically)