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Secular and Cathedral Music in the High Middle Ages

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1 Secular and Cathedral Music in the High Middle Ages

2 Troubadours Aquitaine
William IX, count of Poitiers and duke of Aquitaine Provençal, Occitan, langue d’oc Trobar (Poetry), Trobador (Poet)

3 Troubadours Troubadour verse types sirventes emueg gap planh tenso
canso fin’ amors (“Courtly love”)

4 Troubadours Bernart de Ventadorn (d. ca. 1200) Marcabru
Can vei la lauzeta mover [Anthology 1-10] canso Marcabru L’autrier jost’ una sebissa [Anthology 1-11] pastorela

5 Performance and Oral Culture
Minstrels joglars, jongluers (“Jokers”) Chansonniers (books of songs) vidas

6 Performance and Oral Culture
Trobaritz Comtessa de Dia A chantar [Anthology 1-12]

7 Music for Elites Trobar Clus
“closed” or difficult poetry for connoisseurs trobar leu: “light” poetry designed for immediate pleasure

8 Trouvères langue d’oïl Richard I (Lionheart) Moniot d’Arras (d. 1239)
Ja nun hons pris [Anthology 1-13] Moniot d’Arras (d. 1239) Ce fut en mai [Anthology 1-14] Jehan Bretel (d. 1272) Adam de la Halle

9 Trouvères Narrative poetry chansons de geste “Songs of deeds”
Lai chansons de toile “picture song”

10 Formes Fixes Rondeau Ballade Virelai AB a A ab AB
Refrain aab Refrain aab, etc. Virelai B aab B aab, etc.

11 Formes Fixes Adam de la Halle Je muir, je muir d’amorete
[Anthology 1-15a] Rondeau Fines amouretes ai [Anthology 1-15b] Ballade Le jeu de Robin et de Marion

12 Geographical Diffusion
Iberian peninsula: Cantigas de Santa Maria (1250–1280) Italian peninsula: lauda spirituale German song: Minnesang, Minnelieder, Minnsinger Lied Walther von der Volgelweide (d. ca. 1230) Neidhardt von Reuenthal (d. ca. 1250)

13 Geographical Diffusion
German song: Minnesang, Minnelieder, Minnsinger Lied Walther von der Volgelweide (d. ca. 1230) Neidhardt von Reuenthal (d. ca. 1250)

14 Instruments Cantigas manuscript

15 Polyphony in Aquitanian Monastic Centers
Abbey of St. Martial “St. Martial” organum Jubilemus exultemus [Anthology 1-16] Tenor (tenere “to hold”) Cantus firmus Ad superni regis [Anthology 1-17] Versus Ligatures

16 Notre Dame School Notre Dame de Paris Anonymous IV
Leoninus magister (Master Leonin) Perotinus magnus (the great Perotin)

17 Measured Music De mensurabili musica (On measured music)
Modus or “Rhythmic mode” Nota longa, nota brevis Organum duplum Gradual Viderunt omnes [Anthology 1-18] Discant copula

18 Organum with Another Voice
Organum triplum, quadruplum Gradual Viderunt omnes [Anthology 1-19] Perotin Hocket Fractio modi

19 Conductus at Notre Dame
Homorhythmic (note against note) Vetus abit littera [Anthology 1-20] cauda

20 The Motet Johannes de Grocheio, Ars musicae (The Art of Music) (ca. 1300) mot (“word”) [Anthology 1-21] Double motet

21 “Franconian” Notation
Ars cantus mensurabilis (The Art of Measured Song) (ca. 1280) Franco of Cologne Mensural notation

22 Late 13th Century Motet L’autre jour/ Au tens pascour/IN SECULUM [Anthology 1-22] Montpellier Codex (ca. 1280–1300) 300+ motets On parole/A Paris/FRESE NOUVELE [Anthology 1-23]

23 The “Petronian” Motet Petrus de Cruce
Puncta divisionis (division points)


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