VPMA93H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium, Nat King Cole
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1889 expedition in paris showcased art, music, and culture from around the world. Predominantly ideophones, and music itself is passed down through oral traditions. They used major and minor scale, but whole-tone scale on euro instruments. Long patterns of musical figures or melodies. Due to this, there"s a static quality. Example: anon. , gaude virgo salutata from the dublin troper (c. 1360): https://www. youtube. com/watch?v=6ihgcymh_f8 (only to 1:39) Also one line of music, for one solo violin heterophony (adj. , heterophonic) the simultaneous statement of two or more different versions of what is essentially the same melody. Found more in middle eastern and south asian music rather than european music. One person is leading the hymn and people are joining in and singing whatever they want to. This should be done deliberately, not a choir practise gone wrong. Example: amazing grace, new bethal baptist church, detroit (recorded in 1977): blackboard. One voice going on with the text, and others go along.
