MUS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Notre Dame School, Mixolydian Mode, Vitruvian Man
17 Jan 2018
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Evolution of organum - notre dame school - middle ages. Definite rhythms and meter - new melody includes several notes for each chant note (melismas) Each line could move in different speeds. Notre dame school - master leonin and perotin - developed the first well-understood system of rhythmic notation. Perotin - mixolydian mode - almost major scale, rich open harmonies, organum compound meter, polyphony (faster voices over slow-moving tenor line), crisper rhythms. The renaissance - rebirth - revival of ancient greek and roman culture (1400-1600) Individuality [biographies of artists, weakened power of church to mediate between individual and. Relation to antiquity - being modern/modernity [effort to return to greece and rome as models, Shifting power [increasing literacy, rising bourgeoisie - neither church nor nobility] Wish to combine art and science effort to recapture ancient power of music] Humanism - vitruvian man da vinci - 1490. Favors beautiful acappella sonorities, consonant harmonies, carefully controls dissonance, mixes textures (homophony, polyphony, monophony)
