1. MUH 3211 - Music History I “Plainchant and Secular Monophony”
9/21/2018
Chapter 1
“Plainchant and Secular Monophony”
DAY 7 (20 Sep 17)

2. Secular Music
Who? What?
Jongleurs – itinerant entertainers (minstrel, etc.)
Goliards – traveling clergy
Latin poetry, satires
Carmina Burana

3. France (courts)
Troubadours (south: langue d’oc – Occitan) texts (about 10% w/ music)
Trouvères (north: medieval French) texts (most w/ music)
trouver = “to find” (invent) - writers/composers & performers
Songs of “Courtly Love” (code of chivalry)
Strophic
Monophonic (?) or accompanied (??)

4. Miniature Initial: Paris BN MS 124
Beatriz de Dia (d. c. 1212)
Daughter of Count Isoard II (Diá in south France)
“trobairitz” (female)
Married to William of Poitiers, but…loved… (?) Raimbaut of Orange (c – 1173)
Anthology I/6
Beatriz de Dia: “A chantar” (track 3 – 5:06)
Text & translation
Miniature Initial: Paris BN MS 124

5. Miniature Initial: Paris BN: Chansonnier K (p. 27r)
Peire Vidal
fl c – c. 1215
Troubadour
About 50 surviving poems (12 w/ melodies)
“Baros, de mon dan covet” (Anthology I/7) - Ex. 1 (rhythmicized) - Ex. 2 (free rhythm)
Miniature Initial: Paris BN: Chansonnier K (p. 27r)

6. Spain Cantigas de Santa Maria Composed 13th century
Alfonso de Sabio (King) (owner, composer?)
400 songs in honor of Virgin Mary
Anthology I/8

7. Walther von der Vogelweide (c. 1170-12-30
MUH Music History I
9/21/2018
Germany
Minnesinger (“Minne” = love)
12th – 13th centuries
“Bar Form” (AAB)
Anthology I/9 - Walther von der Vogelweide - Palästinalied
Walther von der Vogelweide (c
DAY 7 (20 Sep 17)

8. MUH 3211 - Music History I “Polyphony to 1300”
9/21/2018
Chapter 2
“Polyphony to 1300”
DAY 7 (20 Sep 17)

9. Polyphony Defined? Two (or more) lines [voices] combined
Origins? – possibly improvised
Notated – earliest in mid-9th century
Based on plainchant
“Organum” (generic term for most early polyphony)

10. Musica enchiriadis “music handbook” (c. mid-late 800s)
Literally, “how to make music”
Organum - parallel voices at the 4th and/or 5th
Vox principalis (given) = chant
Vox organalis (improvised [usually] below)
Can be doubled at octave (4 voices total)
Ex. parallel organum and more parallel organum
Also see textbook examples

11. Musica Enchiradis (excerpt)
Beginnings of independent lines
Ex. Two-part organum