Thursday, February 14, 2008

IAH Music and Culture

Canzona: Composer- Giovanni Gabrielli (Renaissance)
instrumental
dynamics (loud to soft to loud)
Long short short rhythm
overlapping candences

Doulz Viaire by Guillame de Machaut (Middle Ages)
Rondeau poem
AB
two line refrain

Gram Piant by Francesco Landini (Middle Ages)
love song
AB (two sections)
lute and two voices

Pange Lingua by Thomas Aquinas (renaissance)
Syllabic
Strophic
plainchant hymn

Viderunt Omne by Perotinus (middle ages)
polyphonic

As vesta was by Thomas Weelkes (renaissance)
overlapping candences
polyphonic
Madrigal

Kyrie from Pange Lingua Mass by Josquin Desprez (Renaissance)
point of imitation
pairing imitation
overlapping candences

A Chantar M'er by countessa da dia (middle ages)
Women point of view
irregular form
rhythmically free
monophonic (neumatic)

Kyrie (anonymous)(middle ages)
AAA BBB CCC
melismatic
mass ordinary "kyrie"

Fas et Nefas from Carmina Burana (medieval)
monophonic with drones
secular
conductus (sung through procession)
strophic

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