Chapter 6 The Middle Ages. Middle Ages Timeline Key Terms Jongleurs Liturgy Plainchant Medieval modes Reciting tone Antiphon Melisma Sequence Troubadours.

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Chapter 6 The Middle Ages

Middle Ages Timeline

Key Terms Jongleurs Liturgy Plainchant Medieval modes Reciting tone Antiphon Melisma Sequence Troubadours Trouvères Minnesingers Estampies Organum Motet Isorhythm Chanson

The Middle Ages Followed fall of Rome in 476 C.E. Much education and technology lost in the West Church central in all areas of life New musical concepts evolved –Notation, polyphony, tunes

Music and the Church Church was patron of the arts Most musicians trained in Church Most notated music was Church music

Plainchant Chanting sacred texts is a nearly universal phenomenon Church services required thousands of texts and melodies Pope Gregory I standardized chants (Gregorian chant)

Characteristics of Plainchant Nonmetrical Based on medieval modes

Gregorian Recitation Simple recitation on a single pitch, the reciting tone Used for routine texts in services Melody used for more significant prayers and processions

Antiphon, “In paradisum” Melody: legato, moves mostly by step Mode: Mixolydian Tonality: weaker than with major scale Nonmetrical Rhythm: follows text at moderate tempo Texture: monophonic Form: no obvious patterns of repetition or return

Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) Abbess Mystic and author –Scivias, a record of her visions –Books on theology, medicine, sciences Composer of some 77 works

Hildegard, “Columba aspexit” Melody more elaborate than earlier plainchant Mixolydian mode Monophonic with instrumental drone Female voices Sequence form: A A´ B B´ C C´ etc.

“Columba aspexit” Modal cadences

Music at Court Royalty now becoming patrons of music Troubadour and trouvère songs –Composed and performed by nobles –First large body of secular songs –Concerned with chivalric love and heroes –Probably accompanied by jongleurs

Bernart de Ventadorn (c. 1135–1194) Troubadour poet Influenced other troubadours and trouvères Humble background, but came to serve Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine

Bernart, “La dousa votz” Legato melody moves mostly by step Has feel of duple meter Simple rhythms, moderate tempo Homophonic Words express joys and sorrows of love Strophic form: a a´ b pattern for each stanza

Estampies Instrumental court dances Lively triple meter Written jongleur improvisations? –One-line pieces –Phrases repeated and varied many times

Medieval Notation Indicated only pitches, not instruments, tempo, dynamics, etc. Scholars and performers make well- educated guesses –Adding a drone to Hildegard’s plainchant –Adding rhythm and accompaniment for “La dousa votz” –Adding percussion to instrumental dances

How did early music sound? Did the singer really sound that way? Did he or she perform the rhythms the way our singer did? Did he or she use accompaniment for this song? We’ll never know for sure!

Evolution of Organum Earliest type of polyphony (c. 900 C.E.) 1.New melody below chant, note for note, in parallel motion 2.Counterpoint no longer parallel 3.New melody includes several notes for each chant note (melismas) 4.Multiple counterpoints 5.Definite rhythms and meter

Notre Dame School Developed the first well-understood system of rhythmic notation Composers: Master Léonin and Master Pérotin Pérotin famous for organa in three and four voices

Pérotin, “Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia” Legato melodies move mostly by step Mixolydian mode Rich, open harmonies Chant portions nonmetrical; organum compound meter Polyphonic—faster voices over slow- moving tenor line Alleluia chant returns; otherwise free

Later Medieval Polyphony After 1200 C.E. Greater focus on secular music Greater melodic independence More intricate rhythms and notation

Motet New genre Fragment of Gregorian chant repeated in bottom voice On top, two more voices, each with different secular text

Anonymous, “Sumer is icumen in” Round Two lower voices (the pes) Main melody in one voice, then two, then four Major mode (not medieval)

Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300–1377) A priest who served the courts of France and Luxembourg Greatest composer and French poet of his day Described himself as short; blind in one eye; gout sufferer; and lover of nature, horseback riding, and falconry

Machaut, “Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” Chanson with four voices Non-imitative polyphony Long melismas a a´ b stanzas

“Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient” Translation: aLady source of all my joy, I can never love or cherish you too much, a′or praise you as much as you deserve, or serve, respect, honor, and obey you. bFor the gracious hope, sweet lady, I have of seeing you, gives me a hundred times more joy and boon than I could deserve in a hundred thousand years.