Machaut
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- Year King John dies
- 1346
- Seige of Reims
- 1359-60
- How Many Rondeaux?
- 22
- Jacques Boogart Date
- 1993
- Fuller, Phantom Treatise
- 1985-6
- Brothers, Ficta and Harmony
- 1997
- Chest, throat, and head voices
- Jerome of Moravia
- Mahaut mentioned by Jean de Murs
- 1350s
- Bull banning Hockets
- Pope John XXII 1324/5
- Hirshberg on Hexachords
- Jehoash, 1980
- Wimsatt and Kibler
- James and William, 1988
- Bent & Brownlee date
- 1991, Early Music History
- What is the source for locating chants
- Bryden and Hughes
- iamb
- short-long
- Dactyl
- Long-short-short
- Spondee
- Long-Long
- trochee
- long-short
- Johannes de Grocheo's treatise, date
- De musica, ca. 1300
- Johannes de Grocheo's three kinds of music
- civilis, canonica, ecclesiastica
- What Propers did Ensemble Binchois use?
- Mass of the Assumption
- Year Machaut received his position at Reims
- 1337
- Ms. E
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Paris, BNF fr. 9221
ca. 1390; "sumptious" - Dating of Remede
- 1340-50; musicologists 1340-6
- Ms. A
- Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 1584
- Earp's Rhythmic Datings
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6/8: Earlier
2/4 1340s
Iambic rhythms: later - "New source" for performance practice in late-medieval France
- Christopher Page 1982: 15th C Romance "Cleriadus et Meliadice."
- How many Ballades?
- 42
- How many Virelais
- 33
- How many Motets?
- 23
- Craig Wright's Conspectus
- 12th Congress of the International Musicological Society, 1977
- Who pitched Mass down fourth?
- Taverner Consort, 1984
- What is funny about the 1961 Deller recording of the Mass?
- Bell at beginning of Kyrie, duplum triplum combined.
- En amer a douce vie
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Ballade No. 41 (Balladelle). Duplex: Egidius
Perfect Tempus, Major Prolation (9/8)
Popular: Widely circulated, borrowings
C-Mode, plagal cantus
4v, some Posthumous 3v (Reaney either/or)
7, 3 syllables, retrograde syllable, rhyme.
4 voices, some 3 (w/o tr) posthumous - David
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Hoquetus David.
Tenor: Nativity Feast melislma "David"
Written in 9-4 Time. Perfect Mode, perfect tempus (no eighth notes).
Schrade transcribes as major prolation, Ludwig as minor. - Dame mon cuer en vous remaint
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Rondeau No. 22, Remede (last lyric)
Imperfect Tempus, Major Prolation (6/8)
D final, G ouvert, none "strong"
8-line, 8-syllable
Does not circulate outside Remede
Always 3 voices: Tr, Ca, Te - Dame, a vous sans retollir
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Virelai No. 33, Remede de Fortune.
6th musical piece, 7th lyric
Imperfect Tempus, major Prolation (6/8)
F Final, C ouvert.
7, 4 syllables
7, 3 lines
All monophonic - De Toutes Flours
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Ballade No. 31
Imperfect Tempus, Prolation (2/4)
3 voices: ca, te, ct
Not in C, posthumous sources have "inauthentic" triplum.
8 lines, decasyllabic, verse coup
cadential teleology
Cf. Roman de la Rose
Salzer prolongational sketch V &I
Extremely popular, incl. inst. version - Mass
- All 4 voices, only Ite outside of complete works mss.
- Ms. F-G (2 vols)
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Paris, Bibliothèqe Nationale, fonds français 22545-6
Dating: Avril: 1390, Reaney 1370. - Rose, liz
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Rondo No. 10
Perfect Tempus/Imperfect Prolation (3/4)
Reaney: "Double Rondeau"
13-line, 7-syllable
3v with space for fourth in C, then 4 v
Inauthentic contratenor in C
clos-ouvert-clos (Page)
7: beauties of Spring, 7 virtues, sins, syllables - Foy Porter
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Virelai No. 22
Imperfect Tempus, Minor Prolation (2/4)
In all mss., nowhere else
3, 4, 7 syllables; 8, 3 lines
F final, ouvert C
Melisma on vous, 7-8 ratio - Year of Machaut's becomming a clerk for John, King of Luxembourg
- 1323
- Marchetto of Padua
- Early 14th C--Wrote that Dissonance wanted to "flee" to consonance"
- Johannes Boen
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Dutch Priest and Music Theorist
You first count notes in chant, and then calculate how to divide them - What Papal Bull improved the choir?
- 1352
- What year did a Papal Bull ban polyphony?
- 1324/5
- Ms. Vg
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US:NYw
Wildenstein collection
ca. 1370 - Ms. C
- Paris BNF, fonds francais 1586
- Ms. B
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Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, fonds francais 1585
1370-2
A direct copy of Vg. - Models for Remede
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Rose: retreat to park, complaints
Boetheus: Consolation of Philosophy
Lady Esperance & her garrulous nature
Original: Love & Reason complementary - Hesdin Connection?
- Favorite Locale for John II of Luxembourg
- Charles V coronation
- 1364
- Black Plague in Reims
- 1349
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SÂ’il estiot nulls
S'amours tous
Et gaudebit cor vestrum -
Motet No. 6
Imperfect Tempus, major Prolation (6/8)
Complex isorhythm.
Triplum 10 syllables, duplum 7
B section different talea.
Step 6--longing to rejoice.
Chant: Final Melisma of Responsory Sicut mater consolatur (Mode 8) -
Amours qui
Faus Samblant
Vidi dominum -
Motet No. 15
Imperfect Tempus, Major Prolation (6/8)
"Panisorhythmic"
Dating: late, due to iambic rhythms
Chant source: "...face to face; life preserved" (Genesis), beginning of Mode 6 responsory
Triplum: 5 and 7 syllable, tenor 7
In Ivrea ms. - Bone Pastor
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Motet No. 18
Imperfect Tempus, Major Prolation (6/8)
Guillaume de Trie: Entry 1324, oath 1325
B section perfecty panisorhythmic; some panisorhtyhm in A section.
Chant source unidentified
Hocket in B section.
Triplum, 7 & 6 syllable, duplum 8 & 4 - Stages in Motet
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1. Rhythmic modes
2. Fr. Double motet (13th C)
3. Virty, bipartite
4. Machaut, back to Fr, more isor. - Egidius de Murino (Year, treatise, 3 things)
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De motettis componendis, mid 14th C
1. Tenor should be chosen to match poetry
2. Then "measure" it
3. Then, write upper voices - Who said "accomplished musicians and lay connoisseurs"
- Jacques de Liege, "Speculum Musice."
- Who was the English medieval mystic?
- Richard Rolle, English Hermit, 14th C, much concerned with Love.
- Flemish Mystic
- John Ruusbroec, Brussels. By means of Wisdom (personified), one can see God--Seeing God by one's own means the supreme state.
- German Mystic
- Henry Suso, Machaut's comtemporary. "Minnesinger of mysticism."
- Archbishop of Canturbury
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Baldwin of Ford 12th C. Cure for lovesickness (result of a feeble spirit) will come when you meet God face to face.
Drew from "Song of Songs" - Suso's book on Wisdom
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Horologium Sapintiae (Wisdom's watch Upon the Hours)
350 surviving ms. copies.
"Lady Wisdom" is Christ
Crosses secular/sacred language boundaries (erotic). A copy survives at Reims cathedral - The Spiritual Quest for Wisdom
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1. recognize difficulty
2. grieve over sinfulness
6. Fleeting joy
longing...yearning
glimpse of Chirst - Johannes de Grocheo
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De Musica: Mode applies specifically, and only, to ecclesiastical, monophonic chant
Around 1300 - Motet 15 talea length
- 10
- Hocket talea length
- 12, 8
- Motet 18 talea length
- 8 note
- Talea length Motet 6
- 9 note
- Kyrie I talea length
- 4 note
- Kyrie III talea
- 12, 13, 13, 13
- Sanctus talea
- 11-note after intro
- Agnus talea
- 9-note
- Ite talea
- 10 note
- Christe talea
- 8 notes
- Kyrie II talea
- 10
- Kyire mode
- D
- Credo Mode
- D
- Sanctus mode
- 5
- Agnes mode
- 5
- Ite mode
- 6
- Who says Machaut Mass assembled from various pieces, perhaps associated with Avignon?
- Elizabeth Keitel, 1982
- What is Jean de Murs's treatise?
- Libellus cantus mensurabilis
- Who are the Italian Ars Nova gents?
- Marchetto of Padua (duple division), Petrus de Cruce (lots of minims)