MUHS 3703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Anonymous Iv, Rhythmic Mode, Melisma
1 Sep 2016
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Tenor: the principal voice; the original chant being decorated. Up to 1100, principal voice was on top; behinning around 1100, principal voice was the lowest voice. Discant: note-against-note style of organum, or a few notes in the added voice (texture) Clausula: a self-contained unit of discant (usually setting one word or syllable) (structural section of a piece with a discant texture) Florid organum: many notes added in upper voice against slow moving notes in the tenor. Urbanization led to increased importance of cathedrals over monasteries. Notre dame cornerstone laid 1163, consecrated 20 years later (entire building finished early 14th century) Music for notre dame had increased length, range, and number of voices, reflecting grandeur. Attempts to provide polyphonic composition for entire year. Worked around the end of the 12th century. Known primarily through anonymous iv, but precise identities unknown. 100 two-voice organa on mass and office chants. Revised leonin"s work, adding his own clausulae (sections of the organum)
