Music 1102A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Organum, Christmas Carol, Squarcialupi Codex
19 Mar 2018
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Texture: listen to contrast between the melodies of the two voices; one high, one low. Rhythm: feel the regular pulse of three beats, with the first accented. Melody: listen for the stepwise motion in both voices, and notice the brief stopping points that break the melody into smaller units. Form: listen for repetition of large scale units. Word-music relationship: notice the largely syllabic text setting (one note per syllable->happy birthday) and the occasional melismatic setting (multiple notes sung to a single syllable- Two voice ballata-genre of secular song based in dance. Polyphony: two or more voices of equal importance and retain their own identities. Perotin"s organum (notre dame de paris, 12th century) Composers like landini wrote secular polyphony against new, original melodies. Music falls into consistent units of three beats. Conjunct (stepwise, no big leaps) melodies subdivided into smaller units. Smaller units end with a cadence (brief stopping point at which the music pauses)
