History of Music in the Middle Ages 3106-1SW-C
The material for the classes - presented partly by the participants, partly by the teacher - includes several dozen works, given in the list below. Each participant is required to publicly present an original analysis of one of the works from this list, selected at the first lesson.
1. Modal system. Chant notation
2. History of the Mass and Liturgy of Hours
Officium in die 24 Junii, in Nativitate S. Joannis Baptistae – AM 920-928
3. Forms of Gregorian Chant
Missa in Resurrectione Domini (proprium) – LU 777-781
Missa Lux et origo (ordinarium) – LU 16-19
4. Hymns, sequences, tropes
*Pange lingua (hymn) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-AsvDn87fo
Iste confessor (hymn) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V7fxOojiSE
*Victimae paschali laudes (sequence) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=AneBNAmTyr8
Dies irae (sequence) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsn9LWh230k
5. Secular monody
*Bernart de Ventadorn: Quand vei la lauzeta mover – www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkp2GHBRUiQ
Moniot d'Arras: Ce fut en mai – www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSl3eFstimM
Adam de la Halle: Robins m’aime – www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7ncJV30610
*Venite a laudare (Laudario di Cortona) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9jFLN2kk84
Porque trobar (Cantigas de Santa Maria) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOlob04FqRs
6. Origins and early polyphony - St. Martial School
Kyrie – Cunctipotens genitor (organum) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnoe2_AmxoQ
Alleluia – Iustus ut palma (organum) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjCN9lhCQWo
*Laude iocunda melos (sequence) – https://youtu.be/34M_ZL1YEXM?t=1270
Ave virgo virginum (conductus) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcmuOWV-6r0
*Congaudeant catholici (conductus) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=Akv5cYl-Crg
7. School of Notre-Dame - Leoninus and Perotinus
Leoninus: Alleluia – Pascha nostrum (organum) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCRm7uLirA
ia – Ave Maria fons laetitiae (motet) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4vsw5cbz0s
Ex semine – Ex semine Rosa (clausula & motet) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqJITI-YTks
Perotinus: Mors (clausula) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=bafFNUvD1mw
*Perotinus: Sederunt principes (organum) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnj7EjVGO10
8. The modal rhythmic - The Ars Antiqua motet
*Alle psallite cum luya – www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvAMe9rTsKc
Amor potest – www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3sKmO1baA
Procurans odium (conductus) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLiTjTd76NY
En non diu – Quant voi la rose – Eius in oriente
*Petrus de Cruce: Aucun ont trouvé – Lonc tans – Annuntiantes – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LocugwuG6jo
Messe de Tournai (Kyrie) – https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=HMA1951353
9. Ars Nova
Philippe de Vitry: In arboris – Tuba sacrae – www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjCOBXUHCc4
Philippe de Vitry: Garrit gallus – In nova fert – Neuma – www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyty4VfzyRs
*Philippe de Vitry: Cum statua – Hugo hugo – www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LGAzsf92Ig
*Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame – www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvIEA2dBKGA
10. Guillaume de Machaut
*Guillaume de Machaut: Trop plus est belle – Biaute paree – Je ne sui mis certeins (motet) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I8kYwLce8I
*Guillaume de Machaut: De toutes flours (ballade) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePyhwhrWkog
*Guillaume de Machaut: Ma fin est mon commencement (rondeau) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgGvVL10KJ8
Guillaume de Machaut: Douce dame jolie (virelai) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJS-HZWB3wE
11. Trecento
Jacopo da Bologna: Non al suo amante (madrigal) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlRSDTQ250M
Jacopo da Bologna: Fenice fu (madrigal) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-FYwWFgesU
Gherardello da Firenze: Tosto che l’alba (caccia) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=U76oTIQIgK8
*Francesco Landini: Ecco la primavera (ballata) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=HixQGLrLIBY
*Francesco Landini: Si dolce non sono (madrigal) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhLD3Y2ph-4
12. Ars Subtilior, Johannes Ciconia
*Solage: Fumeux fume par fumée (rondeau) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=yik643q_Elo
Baude Cordier: Belle, bonne, sage – https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=HMA1951252
*Degentis vita – Cum vix artidici – Vera (motet) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=spcpTbm5qU8
Johannes Ciconia: Una panthera (madrigal) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv8bUccBzKk
Johannes Ciconia: Le ray au soleil – www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGoQ7yN1wBE
Johannes Ciconia: Gloria – https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=RIC316 CD 2, track 13
13. British Polyphony
Sumer is icumen in – www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWWEHAswpFI
Beata progenies (Old Hall) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKbJjhmOnaw
Lionel Power: Missa Alma Redemptoris: Gloria – naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=5099960249357
*John Dunstable: Quam pulchra es – www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQjdEbZH2wI
*John Dunstable: Veni Sancte Spiritus – https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=5099960249357
14. Instrumental music
Le ior (Codex Faenza) – www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/catalogue/item.asp?cid=8.553618
De toutes flours (Codex Faenza) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEXCUM4M7tg
Aquila altera (Codex Faenza) – www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sc8hl4M2yvE
Bonus tenor – www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY6f7BNKBbs
Type of course
Prerequisites (description)
Learning outcomes
The student after completing the course:
1. knows the basic terminology of musicology in relation to the Middle Ages
2. has an ordered, detailed knowledge of the range of selected fields of science and scientific disciplines methodology
3. has a basic knowledge of the main directions of development and the most important new developments in musicology
4. knows and understands the basic methods of analysis and interpretation of cultural products appropriate for the selected musical traditions , theories or schools of musicology research
5. is aware of the complex nature of the language of music and the complexity and the historical volatility of its meaning
6. is able to search, analyze , evaluate , select and use information using a variety of sources and methods
7. has the basic research skills , including the formulation and analysis of research problems , methods and tools of research , development and presentation of the results , allowing problem-solving research in musicology
8. knows how to acquire knowledge and develop research skills by following the instructions academic supervisor
9. able to use the basic theories , research paradigms and concepts relevant to musicology in typical situations of professional
10. is able to recognize different types of cultural music and engage in a critical analysis and interpretation using conventional methods , in order to determine their meaning , social impact , the place in the process of socio -cultural
11. has the ability to argue the merits of using the views of other authors, and to formulate proposals
12. has the ability to prepare typical of written in Polish, on specific issues, using basic theoretical approaches and different sources
13. has the ability to prepare speeches in Polish, on specific issues , using basic theoretical approaches and different sources
14. is able to interact and work in a group, taking different roles.
Assessment criteria
Assessment is based on the activity of the chosen analysis
(25 pts) and the test: audial (pieces marked with*, 20 pkt), terminology (25 pts) and notes (30 pts).
Bibliography
AM – Antiphonale Monasticum pro diurnis horis, Parisiis – Tornaci – Romae 1934
LU - Liber Usualis Missae et Officii pro Dominicis et Festis cum Canto Gregoriano, Tournai 1961
Graduale Triplex, Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes 1979 (and later editions)
David Hiley, Chorał Kościoła zachodniego. Podręcznik, Kraków 2016
Gustave Reese, Music in the Middle Ages, W W Norton & Co Inc 1940
John Harper, Formy i układ liturgii zachodniej od X do XVIII wieku, Kraków 1997
Zofia Dobrzańska-Fabiańska, Polifonia średniowiecza. Wyd. 2 poprawione, Kraków 2009
Richard Taruskin, The Oxford history of western music. Vol. 1, The earliest notations to the sixteenth century, New York – Oxford 2005
Additional information
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