MUSI 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Liberal Arts Education, Diophantine Equation, Quadrivium
25 May 2016
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Music: musica humana, musica mundana and musica instrumentalis. Gregorian chant and early secular songs: sung in rhythmic values determined by text, no clearly marked rhythms or meter. Polyphonic compositions (after 1180: mostly in triple meter, uses repeated rhythmic patterns (rhythmic modes) The rhythmic modes are now changed to what we have in modern time. Polyphonic compositions: can have dissonant sonorities within phrases, phrases end with open unisons, octaves, or fifths. Medieval instruments different from those used in modern orchestras. Some are ancestors of modern instruments, others became extinct. Named in honour of pope gregory (reigned 590-604) Decreed when chants should be sung during the liturgical year. He was not a musician and wrote few, if any, chants. Replaced numerous regional chant practices (sarum; celtic areas; mozarabic; iberia; Composed for use in religious services in the church and monastery. Does not use meter or regular rhythms.
