Medieval music monodic texture

1 Middle Ages
Anonymous composers and works not signed until late middle age because they thought the message was more important.
There are more religious music troubadour to the religious sense that is not going to war.
There are more vocal because at that time there were many instruments
Invented musical notation that means inventing writing in the score
It makes the transition from the polyphonic texture monodic (1 line of singing sings +1)
1 site. -2 Universal powers: religious and civil 2nd place. -dependency relationships with noble knights compared with other more powerful
2 Gregorian Chant
Religious Music
Always vocal
Anonima
Always with Latin
Dramatica
Monodic
Rhythm very flexible
The good name of Pope Gregory 1
Different Gregorian chants 1: sillabic ever changing silaba different pneumatic 2: 1silaba 2nd 3rd grades 3 melismatic 1 silaba month 3 notes
Responsorial chants and anifonals. Anifonal: after an introductory phrase with another alternan choir sings and the end repeats the beginning RESPONSORIAL lu: 1 month soloists sing the verses and choruses are sung room for a faithful choir
3 Music troubadour
Composed and performed by troubadour
Jugglers acrobats half half poets
S XII begins in southern France
Oralmente XII and XIII s early writings
As of s twelfth disappeared
In Catalonia reaches s XII
Minstrels most important Peire Vidal and Cerverí
Monodic
Rhythm is regular and structured
4 Invention of Notation
Neumes
They were symbols you drop the text and try to remember what the melody
Horizontal line in 1000
It consisted of squares and put a line is placed above or below to indicate the tone
Tetagrama and names of the notes (XI)
Very important because of Arezzo Guiddo monk stood in the four squares that was invented (symbols precise) invented the name of the hymn notes taking St. John the Baptist
Notation of rhythm (XIV)
Early signs of rhythm and music that is not done before because the pace is not interesaba
5 Development of polyphony
Organum (IX X)
Gregorian chant and taking him away by putting the same movements of the Quarte l INIA.
- 1 voice cantus firmus
- 2 voice vox organalis
Discantus (XI)
Two voices that take the primary cantus firmus eat and make reference to the moving hand
-Counterpoint
Motet (XIII)
More than 2 voices each is independent of the other
Cantata mb difrents languages
The letter can be dferent
From Gregorian chant
Conductus (XIII)
More than two voices indepedents
Different languages and different letter
Invented all the voices
Do not use any of Gregorian chant Paute
Not Cantus firmus
Red Book of montserrat
Important 6 Pers
Pope Gregory I
Guiddo Arezzo
Pierre Vidal
Raimbaut of Vaqueiras
Leoni
Pérotin
Guillame de Machaut