1/25/2017

Medieval Song and Dance

Quiz next Tuesday!

• on next week’s music • only the works with no “*”

Objectives

• #1. courtly love • #2. conventions of songs – topics – musical style – aab – popular song form

1 1/25/2017

Troubadours

• Southern France – Occitan or Provençal lang d’oc vs. lang d’oïl (North).

Troubadours/Courtly love

• unrequited love • canso • – vida – W/T 15

Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, W/T 15

“‘Every loyal lover,’ replied Beatrice, ‘who attaches himself to a lady of merit, whom he fears as well as respects, always explains his sentiments before he suffers himself to die for her sake.’” “The more did Beatrice favor her knight, the more desirous were the envious to ruin him in her esteem. . . And so much evil gossip was spread about that the lady Beatrice became enraged with Raimbaut.”

2 1/25/2017

Troubadours/Courtly love

• Unrequited love • canso • Raimbaut de Vaqueiras – vida – W/T 15

Troubadours/Courtly love

• Comtessa de Dia – A chantar (1150‐1200), NAWM 9 – aab

The Albigensian Crusade

3 1/25/2017

Trouvère song

• , Jeu de Robin . . . (ca. 1284) NAWM 10 • Musical play – Pastourelle – Rondeau – ABaabAB

The Minnelied in Germany

• Walther von der Vogelweide • Crusade Song • Palästinalied (ca.1228), NAWM 11 • aab

The Gothic Polyphony of Notre Dame de Paris

4 1/25/2017

Principal Objectives

• Notre Dame as musical center • #1. vs. discant • #2. Leoninus vs. Perotinus • #3 clausulae

Terminology

• Antiquity • Middle Ages • GOTHIC

Goth Kids

Edgar Allan Poes (by Valerie Rangel)

Notre Dame de Paris

• “gothic” architecture • built 1160‐1250 • hi‐res pic • Anonymous IV, W/T 16

5 1/25/2017

Anonymous IV on Leoninus and Perotinus, W/T 16 “Master Leoninus was generally known as the best composer of organum, who made the book (Magnus Liber) for Mass and Office for the enhancement of the Divine Service. This book was in use until the time of the great Perotinus, who shortened it and substituted a great many better clausulae, because he was the best composer of discant and better than Leoninus.”

Rhythmic modes/notation

• poetic meters • ligatures

Leoninus, Viderunt omnes, NAWM 17

• genre: organum duplum • = tenor • florid organum • discant (for melismas) • Clausulae on Dominus, NAWM 18 (Anonymous)

6 1/25/2017

Perotinus

• Viderunt omnes, NAWM 19 – genre: organum quadruplum – stop on new syllables – voice exchange Note differences between Leonin and Perotin Leonin = 2 voices Perotin = 3 or 4 voices

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