MUS 2331 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Adam De La Halle, Gregorian Chant, Bernart De Ventadorn
14 Dec 2016
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Forms and styles (middle ages and renaissance) - terms, names, etc. A short prose sung sentence inserted before or after a song or between verses. Sacred tract from the textbook of psalms. The singing of psalms or similar sacred canticles. The chanting of a text by a soloist. The scale type used in gregorian and later music. Each mode has a final note that defines the mode. Authentic modes- are the full octave above notes d, e, f, and g (dorian, phrygian, lydian, mixolydian) Plagal modes still based off the same note but down half an octave and up half an octave d, e, f, g (hypodorian, One voice is added to a plain chant. The most hated man of our music history class. The composer of what has ever since been known as gregorian chant. The legend goes the pope, while dictating to a scribe, his commentary of parts of the bible often paused for a long time.
