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Music of the Middle Ages : style and structure / David Fenwick Wilson.

Author/creator Wilson, David Fenwick
Format Book and Print
Publication InfoNew York : Schirmer Books ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1990.
Descriptionxxii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 25 cm + 2 audiocassettes
Subject(s)
Contents Part 1. The Carolingina era 800-1150. Roman-Gallican chant. istorical background ; The Byzantine empire ; The papacy ; The Frankish kingdom ; The Frankish-papal alliance ; Charlemagne -- Music in the western church. Roman and Gallican chant ; Roman-Gallican chant -- Melodic and rhythmic characteristics. Meoldy ; Rhythm -- The tonal system and the modes. The Oktoechoes ; Western modality ; Melody types ; The tonal system ; Modality in practice -- Notation. The sources ; Other chant repertoires ; Ambrosian ; Mozarabic ; Old Beneventan ; Old Roman -- Practicum: modern chant notation -- Liturgy and Chant. The divine offices ; Rhymed offices ; The mass ; The chants of the mass proper and the offices ; Liturgical recitative and psalmody ; Antiphonal chants ; Responsorial chants ; Tract ; Special antiphons ; Hymns -- The chants of the ordinary of the mass ; Symmetrical texts ; The prose texts ; The dismissal formulas -- Practicum: Plainchant analysis -- Medieval chant. Organization and structure ; The chants of the ordinary ; Embellishments of the liturgy ; The sequence ; Liturgical drama -- Modal theory ; Evolving modal theory ; The fully developed theory -- Notation -- Teaching aids ; The hexachords and solmization ; The gamut ; The hand -- Practicum: singing with the hexachords. Early polyphony. Parallel orgtanum -- Oblique organum -- The sources -- Practicum: composition and improvisation ; Parallel organum ; Oblique organum -- Part II. The flowering of style 1050-1250. Free organum. Style ; Stylistic concepts ; The changing place of polyphony in the service ; Theoretical concepts ; The organum modes -- Consonance and dissonance ; The medieval system of classification ; The individual intervals -- Historical considerations -- Practicum: composition of free organum. The sacred music of southern France. The sources -- The monophonic versus ; Poetic structure ; Texture and phrase structure ; Tonal structure and mode -- The polyphonic versus ; Syllabic style ; The florid and melismatic styles ; Underlying structure ; Neume-against-neume melisma -- Tonal organization ; Successive composition ; Versus in G ; Versus in D -- Cantus firmus settings -- Rhythm -- Practicum 1: poetic analysis -- Practicum 2: composition in the florid style -- Secular monophonic music. Southern France: the troubadours ; Courtly love ; The sources ; The poetry ; Musical style ; Musical form ; Rhythm -- Northern France: the trouveres ; The sources ; The poetry ; Musical style ; Notation and tonality -- Monophonic song outside of France ; Germany ; Spain ; Italy ; England -- Other polyphonic styles. The liber sancti jacobi ; Conductus ; Cantus firmus settings ; Three-voiced composition -- Primitive polyphony -- Historical considerations -- Sacred music in Paris. The music of Notre Dame ; The sources -- The development of rhythm ; The first stages ; The rhythmic organization of the tenor ; The rhythm of the upper voices ; The ordo -- Notation -- Organa dupla ; General styles ; Alleluia: adorabo ad templum -- Organa tripla and quadrupla ; Sonorities ; Tonal structure -- Monophonic conductus ; Musical style ; The rondellus/rondeau -- The polyphonic conductus ; Musical style -- Polyphonic techniques ; Literal repetition ; Repetition with open and closed endings ; Repetition in one voice ; Repetition with voice exchange ; Melodic sequence ; Motivic interchange and interrelationships ; Imitation and canon ; Modal transmutation ; Hocket -- The rhythmic context of Parisian Polyphony -- Part III. The era of the motet 1200-1400. The Early Motet (ca. 1200-1270). Definitions -- The sources -- Notation -- Chronological development ; The trope-oriented motet ; The independent motet ; Midcentury styles -- Form and style ; Rhythmic style ; Melodic style ; Voice relationships ; Harmonic style ; Tonality -- The texts -- Practicum: composition of the motet-style midthirteenth-century discant. The continental motet of the late thirteenth century (ca. 1270-1300). Mensural rhythm ; Franconian rhythm ; Petronian Rhythm ; Conservative rhythmic style -- Isomelic structure -- Secular tenors -- Musical style ; Voice relationships ; Sonorities ; Harmonic rhythm ; Tonality -- The texts -- The hocket. The English motet (ca. 1250-1350). The English concept of motet ; The cantus firmus motets ; The troped chant settings ; Motets on a pes -- Structural techniques ; Isoperiodicity ; Isomelism ; Voice exchange -- Tonal concepts ; Tonal unity ; Sonorities -- The sources -- Notation ; Modal notation ; English mensural notation ; Franconian notation ; Circle-stem notation ; Breve-semibreve notation -- Musical style ; Range ; Four-voice idioms -- The texts. The continental motet in the fourteenth century. The sources -- The composers -- Notation ; Red notation -- Isorhythm ; The isorhythmic tenor ; Isoperiodicity ; Upper-voice isorhythm ; The introitus -- Musical style ; Range and voice relationships ; Harmonic rhythm ; Melodic style ; Sonorities ; our-voice writing ; The solus tenor -- The texts -- The motet in Italy -- A fifteenth-century epilogue -- Practicum: isorhythmic motet analysis. Fourteenth-century polyphonic mass movements. Musical style ; Motet style ; Song style ; The simultaneous style -- Mass cycles -- The English cantilena. Part IV. The polyphonic song 1330-1400. Polyphonic song in fourteenth-century France. The sources ; Repertoire ; Notation -- The forms ; The virelai ; The rondeau ; The ballade ; The lai ; The chace -- Melody ; Syllabic and near-syllabic melody ; Melismatic melody -- Polyphonic techniques ; Two-voice framework ; Three- and four-voice writing ; Displacement technique -- Tonality ; Relationship of ouvert and clos ; Polyphonic cadence structure -- Text-music relationships -- Ars subtilior ; Musical style ; Discant ; Partial signatures ; Notation -- Practicum: composition in fourteenth-century song style. Polyphonic song in fourteenth-century Italy. The sources -- Notation -- The composers ; The first generation ; The second generation -- The forms ; The madrigal ; The caccia ; The ballata -- Melody -- Polyphonic structure ; Two-voice composisiton ; Three-voice composition using canon ; Three-voice composition without canon -- Tonality -- The end of an era. An instrumental postscript. Secular music ; Instruments in secular monophony ; Instruments in secular polyphony -- Sacred music.
Abstract Music of the Middle Ages provides a comprehensive, chronological survey of musical style and compositional technique from early plainchant to the flourishing of fourteenth-century polyphony.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 90038155
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