Ancient-Baroque Music Flashcards
Euripides
Orestes 408 BC
Greek Tragedy
Disjunct Melodic Style
Use of tetrachords
Different tuning
Epitaph of Seikilos
1st century
song
lines of poetry follow musical phrasing
each melodic phrase is linked
Wipo of Burgundy
1000 A.D.
Victimae paschali laudes
sequence
importance of syllables
form A BB CC»_space;»
close with a stepwise decent
Hildegard of Bingen
Ordo Virtutum 1151 AD
Sacred music drama
solo/chorus response
monophonic
Static instrument playing a drone
Gregorian chant- mass
9th-10th century
Mass for Christmas Day
monophonic chant
consonant melodies
Gregorian chant-office
9th-10th century
Chants from Vespers for Christmas Day
psalm based text
Bernart de Ventadorn
1170-80 AD
Can vei la lauzeta mover
Canso/Troubadour song
strophic song
deals with courtly love
Trope- from a liturgical drama
Quem queritis in presepe and Melisma
expands the chant
Comtessa de Dia
Late 12th century
A chantar
Canso
Form AAB
Adam de la Halle
1280
Jeu de Robin et de Marion
Rondeau- musical play
monophonic
rondeau in ABaabAB
De ma dame vient/Dieus, comment porroie/Omnes-Motet
use of borrowed musical material
multiple texts
Walther von der Vogelweide
1228
Palastinalied
Minnelied
Crusade song
AAB form
Accompanied by string instrument
Compilation by Alfonso el Sabio
1270-90
Non sofre Santa Maria- from Cantigas de Santa Maria
Cantiga 159- song
Religious text but for entertainment
AbbaA form
Estampie
La quarte extampie royal-from Le manuscrit du roi
late 13th century
dance
use of instruments
Drums
Organum
850-890
Musica enchiriadis- tu partris sempiternus es filius, sit gloria domini, rex caeli domine
parallel, mixed, oblique
first of attempts of polyphony
free organum
1100
Alleluia justus ut palma- from Ad organum faciendum
based on plainchant
voices cross
Aquitanina polophony
1100
Jubilemus exultemus
polyphonic
use of all types of organum
Static voice and Melismatic voice above
Leoninus
2nd half of 12th century
Viderunt omnes
organum duplum
responsorial chant
solo portions in poyphony/chorus in monophony
Perotinus
1200
Viderunt omnes
organum quadruplum
tenor has original chant
use of rhyhmic modes
extensive in length
Clausulae
12th-13th century
Dominus from Viderunt omnes
recurring rhythmic patterns
tenor has the chant and duplum the clausulae
Conductus
12th-13th century
Ave virgo virginum
Conductus
rhymed, metrical, strophic latin poem
tenor line is newly composed
13th century motet
Tenor Dominus
Adaptation of a discant clausulae
Carol
Early 1400s
Alleluia- from England/Burgandy 15th century
use of parallel polyphony
Rota
1250
Sumer is icumen in
polyphonic
a round performed around the unison
Philippe de Vitry
1320
In arboris/ Tuba sacre didei/ Virgo sum
Motet
Multiple texts
use of hocket
Three lines of sound
Machaut
1360
La Messe de Nostre Dame- Kyrie
Mass
Isorhythmic
use of hocket
Foy Porter
Virelai
Abba form
monophonic
Rose, liz, printemps, verdure
rondeau-fixed form
Philippus de Caserta
1370
En remirant vo douce pourtraiture Ballade Melismatic Polyphonic Accompanied by a flute and stringed instrument
Jacopo da Bologna
1350 Non al suo amante Madrigal rhythmic typical of Italian Trecento voices are treated equal
Gherardello da Firenze
1350 Tosto Che L'alba Caccia humor irregular rhyme hunt tune
Francesco Landini
Late 1300s Non avra ma pieta ballata landini cadence use of syncopation use of 3rds and 6ths
John Dunstable
early 1400s
quam pulchra es
motet
homophonic
consonant sonorities
Binchois
1425
De plus en plus
rondeau
love poem
music fits the shape and structure of the music
Du Fay
1430
Christe, redemptor omnium
hymn in fauxbourdon style
singing a perfect 4th below
use of fauxbourdon cantus
Resvellies vous
ballade
combines French Ars Nova, Ars Subtilior, and the Italian Trecento
Use of an accompaniment instrument
Se la face ay pale
Missa Se la face ay pale ballade
cantus firmus/mass-Gloria
Antoine Busnoys
Je ne puis vivre
Virelai
AbbaA
imitation used consistently
Jean de Ockeghem
2nd half of the 1400s Missa prolationum Mass-Kyrie Mensuration canon long phrases and blurred cadences