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- Guillame de Mauchaut
- 14th Century innovator of the formes fixes
- Messe de Notre Dame
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By guillame de mauchaut composed early - mid 14th century
earliest complete setting of the ordinary of the mass attributable to one composer
- Rhythmic modes
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6 patterns used in polyphony
late 12th, early 13th centuries
you knew the mode by the way the neumes were grouped - Perfection
- A duration basically equal to three beats
- Leonin
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Academic late 12th century
starting to notate music
original author of organum - Magnus liber organi
- big book of organum, doesn't survive to this day. mentioned in anonymous IV
- Perotin
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Leonins successor, expanded and continued his work
pioneer of organum for 3 or 4 voices
13th century - organum duplum
- organum for two voices, esp in notre dame
- discant organum
- 12th century style where upper voices have 1-3 notes for every note of the lower voice
- clasula
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in notre dame esp
a self contained section of organum that closes with a cadence - Hucbald
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9th century dude
writer of de harmonica insitutione
talked about very early polyphany - parallel organum
- polyphany where the added voice moves in exact parallel to a chant, an octave or fifth lower
- vox principalis
- the original voice in polyphany, the voice that was taken from chant. usually the higher voice
- Vox organalis
- the added voice to organum, usually the lower voice
- Guido d'arezzo
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11th century
basically the inventor of staff notation
wrote micrologus - Ad organum faciendum
- book (anon)(10th cent) on how to write organum, especially free organum
- Free organum
- organum where the organal voice moces in free mixture of contrary, similar, oblique, and parallel motion
- florid organum
- organum where the lower voice sustains relatively long notes over lots of movement in the upper voice
- aquitanian polyphany
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12th century
polyphany with florid and discant organum - conductus
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Serious medieval song polyphonic or monophonic
rhymed, rhythmic, latin - troubadour
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12/13th century
SOUTH france - trouvere
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12th13th century
NORTH france - Jongleurs
- basically street performers.
- minnesingers
- Medieval german composers, mostly of love songs
- meistersingers
- amateur german singer 14th-17th century
- estampie
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instrumental dance
several sections, each with two different endings - Sequence
- a Bb Cc Dd etc...
- Responsorial
- Soloist vs Choir way of performing chant
- Antiphonal
- Choir vs Choir way of performing chant
- Phillipe de vitry
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14th century
inventor of ars noca
formes fixes - color
- in isorhythm, the pitch pattern (talea)
- talea
- in isorhythm, the rhythmic pattern (color)
- musica ficta
- notes outside the ascribed mode, used to create a smoother harmony, especially in cadences
- rondeau
- AB aA ab AB forme fixe
- Ballade
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aabC forme fixe
- Virelai
- Abba forme fixe
- cantigas de santa maria
- 400+ spanish "trouvere" songs dedicated to the virgin mary. one book.
- strophic
- the same musical form is found for each stanza
- PLainchant
- unaccompanied, unison song, particularly latin and liturgical
- Gregorian chant
- the repertory of ecclesiastical chant used in the roman catholic church
- musica mundana
- the music of the universe
- musica humana
- the music of the human body
- musica instrumentalis
- audible music
- liturgy
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the prescribed body of texts, songs and actions to be performed in a religious seervice
- office
- the services attended by monks and nuns that took most of the day. important services: vespers and matins
- Mass
- PUBLIC practice of the liturgy. for everyone.
- mass proper
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rotating body of texts for the mass. played at a certain time of year
sung portions:
indroit gradual alleluia sequence gospel communion - Mass ordinary
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texts that were performed the eact same way every fucking day
kyrie
gloria
credo
sanctus
agnus dei
benedictus