MUSI 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Hexachord, Guidonian Hand, Doxology
26 May 2016
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Doxology: ending to a psalm (after a bar line), ends with world without end : saeculoeum amen . The finalis is the ending of the song, so it is the ending of the antiphon! Developed: staff (red line and yellow line, exact note names, sight singing system, guidonian hand (mnemonic tool) Method of assigning syllables to steps of a scale. Hexachords (6 notes), end with la and begin with ut instead of do. Used hexachordal system based on set of six syllables: ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, based on hymn to st. john the baptist ut queant laxis". Mutation: moving from one hexachord to another (now we call it modulation) Musica ficta: notes that are not within the notes guido said existed. On test, we will be asked to name the note. Identify pitch first, then identify where the c is located (name from bottom to top)
