Announcements
First Impressions 1 Assignment is due in week 3.
Listenings & Readings
Lecture 2: More Music from the Middle Ages
- Anonymous, “La quinta estampie real” (estampie)
- Anonymous, “Haec dies” from the Mass for Easter (chant/gradual)
- Anonymous, “Haec dies” (organum)
- Anonymous, “O mittissima / Virgo / Haec dies” (motet)
Recitation 2A Listening & Reading (Neff)
- Machaut, “Ma fin est mon commencement” (secular song)
Recitation 2B Listening & Reading (Neff)
- Baude Cordier, “Tout par compass” (secular song)
Recitation 2A Listening & Reading (Goetjen)
Recitation 2B Listening & Reading (Goetjen)
Key Terms
Estampie
One of the earliest known types of dance music, it could be strictly instrumental or have a text.
More on Medieval Dance (Oxford Reference, The International Encyclopedia of Dance) [Optional]
Polyphony
Musical texture in which more than one line of music is sung or played at the same time.
Trope
Adding new and/or text to a pre-existing chant.
Organum
The polyphonic section of a longer composition in which a pre-existing chant phrase is in the lowest voice, called the tenor (“to hold”), and rendered in long-held note values. Above this borrowed and unmetered chant phrase, one or more new metered melodies are added.
Motet
A sacred, polyphonic composition with a Latin text.
