MUAR 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Duple And Quadruple Metre, Homorhythm, Josquin Des Prez

• School: McGill University
• Department: Music-Arts Faculty
• Course: MUAR 211
• Professor: Jerry M.Cain

Document Summary

Agnus dei: part of the mass ordinary, cantus firmus = piece of music based on some earlier chant melody the cantus firmus itself is the melody line. Texture, etc. is not in the notes: texture: polyphonic (multiple melody lines (4), none are accompaniment) Counterpoint = polyphony: the harmonic language, the notes they hit sometimes (the dissonance) is very different from josquin (16th century), genre: if it is the singing of the mass text, it"s a mass. There are many genres of gregorian chant. This agnus dei is one part (one movement) In addition to writing the oldest mass ordinary that we have, he also wrote secular music. The information about the secular song (puis qu"en oubli) is in the notes: polyphony, when the text repeats, the melody repeats as well. The form of the music is dictated by the form or the poetry: courtiers would be hearing this song (the royal court)