MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Organum, Smallpox, Proverb
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Music 1a03 - lecture 7 > early polyphony and francesco. > duplum part would be four or ve notes above tenor, > duplum would be more melismatic, would embellish the chant. > tenor: sings existing chant added voices > triple and quadruplum ( even higher voices, enhanced well known passages of chant) American composer, minimalist composer (music full of repetition , less is more ) Proverb (1995) > 3 sopranos, 2 tenors, 2 vibraphones, and 2 electric organs. Pays homage to pertain and his organum of the middles ages. 146 pieces in the book were composed by landini. > manuscript created by team of scribes in monastery, monks hired by outsiders in order create such an elaborate manuscript portative organ > could rest on lap, easy to move around, > landini also skilled at playing the partitive organ. Genre: > two part polyphony, secular song, in italian. > upper case letters: two a"s represent music and text repeated.
