MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Weelkes, Recitative, Arioso
15 May 2012
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17th century (baroque period) song: flow my tears by john dowland. Monteverdi, when defending his work, talking about the secunda practica , so he knew he was doing something new with dissonance, harmony, etc. Homophonic music (now most of the music we hear today) is melody + accompaniment: all you need is something you can recognize as an accompaniment for homophony. Chant is very horizontal , melody is a linear type of music (one thing after another). But in homophonic music, we receive the music as being music that is above a base line. We think of what"s going on in a vertical way. This is what"s going on in flow my tears. Homophony will sometimes evolve many parts doing different things at the same time. What makes it homophony is that you have some kind of accompaniment (voice, instruments, etc): you can have homophonic music with one instrument alone.
