MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jacob Obrecht, Western Schism, Homophony
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Liturgy : particular order or form of public service laid down by a church: comes from the word work. Liturgical year: also known as the christian year, consists of cycle of liturgical seasons which determines feasts, memorials, commemorations are to be observed and which portions of. It gives unity meaning, it gives it meaning so we know when to celebrate [christmas, Initially improvised, organum (cid:271)e(cid:272)a(cid:373)e i(cid:374)(cid:272)(cid:396)easi(cid:374)gl(cid:455) (cid:272)ha(cid:396)a(cid:272)te(cid:396)ized (cid:271)(cid:455) o(cid:374)e o(cid:396) (cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)posed(cid:863) (cid:373)elodies set agai(cid:374)st the o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)al melody or cantus firmus: grows out of plainchant style [harmonic above it] Guillaume de machaut (1300-77: he was consider the leading composer, machaut wrote monophonic and polyphonic secular music, written outside the church but mastered everything about duration, harmony, time and had musicians performing these, formes fixes (fixed forms). Music and poetry are formally governed by particular patterns of repetition determined by the poetic genre: e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple so(cid:374)g he (cid:449)(cid:396)ote: (cid:862)da(cid:373)e, de (cid:395)ui toute (cid:373)a joie (cid:448)ie(cid:374)t(cid:863, the(cid:396)e"s a (cid:449)a(cid:455) of pulli(cid:374)g (cid:373)usi(cid:272) togethe(cid:396)
