Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - Melisma, Marginalia, Second Vatican Council
6 Feb 2013
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9th century "romanization" of chant established in the west mostly applied to complicated chants, such as office. Charlemagne wants people in the alps to sing in the roman style. Mass ordinary could be ornamented and embellished with tropes (where they occur most) Prosula just add text to already existing melodies. Text is usually symbolically set to melisma. Notker of st. gall (840 912) writes about composing some sequences in order to remember the melody of a long melisma. Prosulas added to the end of alleluias: sequences. Sequences performed on special feast days to heighten occasion. Mostly syllabic (often repeat melodic lines by two"s eg. aabbccddeeff etc. ) text will be different, but will belong to framgments of melodic lines that are repeated. Emphasis on the final and a fifth above it (examine cadential goals) Melodic repetition to reflect textural repetition (especially in texts like.
