AG 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eton Choirbook, Isorhythm, Spanish Armada
21 Jul 2020
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Music, religion and politics in sixteenth-century england. Music and aesthetics in the seventeenth century. Women and music in the seventeenth century. Popular music: definitions, distinctions and origins ( Class, race, and ethnicity in 19th - and 20th -century popular music: from minstrels to hillbillies. Is music a language universally understood? (cultural context sig. ?) Need to look at the culture in order to understand meaning. Main phases: early medieval church ie. jerusalem, rome, spread of christianity through roman empire (local rules and customs) ie. celtic, Custos = note at the end of plainsong = tells you the next note (cue) Isorhythm = using established pitches ina repeated rhythmic pattern = 14th century (mauchaut in plainsong) 2 notes above each other, sing lower note first. Kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus & benedictus, agnus dei, ite missa est. Guillaume de machaut 1300 1377 niesse de notre dame.
