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Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Ancient Times

• From 800 B.C. to A.D. 476 city states dominant • Greek civilization flourished in Athens • Roman civilization adopted much from Greek civilization

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Ancient Greece

• Doctrine of ethos • Pythagoras discovered acoustical ratios • Lyre

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music The Middle Ages

• About 476 to 1100 • Otherworldly outlook • Monasteries preserved writings

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Gregorian Chant

• Developed under direction of Pope Gregory in sixth century • Created a liturgy for the Christian church

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Gregorian Chant

• Nonmetrical rhythm • Monophonic texture • Smooth contour • Modal scales • Latin text • Sung by monks and priests • Restrained, reverent mood

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music The Mass

• Symbolic re-enactment of Last Supper – Proper – for certain days in Church calendar – Ordinary – ordinarily included • Kyrie – “Lord have mercy” • Gloria – “Glory to God on high” • Credo – “We believe in one God” • Sanctus – “Holy, Holy, Holy” • Agnus Dei – “Lamb of God”

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Requiem Mass

• Funeral or “Requiem” Mass • Gloria and Credo omitted • Dies irae added

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Hildegard: Ordo virtutum

• Morality play • Characters are the Devil and the sixteen Virtues – Humility, Mercy, Faith, and others • Melodies are chant-like • Sung by nuns, except Devil

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Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey Chapter 7: Early Western Music PART II Early, Medieval, and Renaissance Music Summary

• Ancient Times • Ancient Greece • The Middle Ages • Gregorian Chant – “Dies irae” • The Mass • Requiem Mass • Hildegard: Ordo virtutum

Music Listening Today (6th Edition) by Charles Hoffer and Darrell Bailey