Music in Western Civilization, Volume A Antiquity through the Renaissance

by Wright, Craig; Simms, Bryan R.

• ISBN13: 9780495008675
• ISBN10: 0495008672
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Schirmer

Summary

Understand music in context with MUSIC IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION, VOLUME A: ANTIQUITY THROUGH THE RENAISSANCE! Clear and easy-to-understand, this music text provides you with the tools you need to succeed in this course. With a focus on the history of music in the wider context of Western civilization, you will see how study of music history is important to the practice and performance of music today. Numerous full-color photographs, maps, and timelines give you a sense of the place of music within the arts and humanities in the West. Class preparation is made easy with the book-specific website that contains features such as additional musical selections, a music glossary, unit resources, and more.

Table of Contents

Preface	xxiii
Part I ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES
Music in Ancient Greece	2	(10)
Music in Greek Society	3	(3)
Listening Cue Euripides, Orestes, Stasimon Chorus (fragment)	4	(1)
Listening Cue Seikilos, Skolion (Epitaph), As long as you live	5	(1)
The Nature of Greek Music	6	(1)
Music in Greek Philosophy	7	(1)
Greek Music Theory	8	(3)
Summary	11	(1)
Key Terms	12	(1)
Antiquity to the Middle Ages: Music in Rome, Jerusalem, and the Early Christian World	12	(5)
Rome	12	(2)
Jerusalem and the Rise of Early Christian Music	14	(3)
Summary	17	(1)
Key Terms	17	(1)
Music in the Monastery and Convent	17	(11)
The Monastery of St. Gall, Switzerland	18	(1)
The Canonical Hours: The Work of the Lord	19	(1)
Gregorian Chant in the Monastery	20	(1)
Gregorian Chant for Vespers	21	(2)
Listening Cue Chants of Vespers	23	(1)
Antiphon, Tecum principium	23	(1)
Psalm, Dixit Dominus	23	(1)
Hymn, Jesu, Redemptor omnium	23	(1)
Gregorian Chant for the Mass	23	(4)
Listening Cue Chants Beginning the Mass for Christmas Day	27	(1)
Introit, Puer natus est nobis	27	(1)
Kyrie	27	(1)
Gloria	27	(1)
Gradual, Viderunt omnes	27	(1)
Alleluia, Alleluia, Dies sanctificatus	27	(1)
Summary	27	(1)
Key Terms	28	(1)
Music Theory in the Monastery: John of St. Gall and Guido of Arezzo	28	(6)
The Eight Church Modes	29	(1)
Chant Notation	30	(1)
Musical Staff and Pitch Names	30	(1)
Hexachords	31	(2)
The Guidonian Hand	33	(1)
Summary	34	(1)
Key Terms	34	(1)
Later Medieval Chant: Tropes, Sequences, and the Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen	34	(7)
Tropes	35	(1)
Listening Cue Tuotilo of St. Gall, Introit trope, Hodie cantandus est nobis	35	(1)
Listening Cue Tuotilo of St. Gall, Kyrie trope, Omnipotens genitor	35	(1)
Sequences	36	(2)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Dies irae	37	(1)
Music in the Convent: The Chant and Liturgical Drama of Hildegard of Bingen	38	(3)
Listening Cue Hildegard of Bingen, O rubor sanguinis	40	(1)
Listening Cue Hildegard of Bingen, Ordo virtutum (excerpts)	41	(1)
Summary	41	(1)
Key Terms	41	(1)
Troubadours and Trouveres	41	(6)
Listening Cue Beatriz de Dia, A chantar m'er	43	(1)
The Court of Eleanor of Aquitaine	43	(2)
Listening Cue Bernart de Ventadorn, Can vei la lauzeta	45	(1)
Trouveres	45	(1)
Listening Cue Richard the Lionheart, Janus hons pris ne dira	45	(1)
Summary	46	(1)
Key Terms	46	(1)
Early Polyphony	47	(5)
Organum in Music Theory Sources	47	(2)
Organum in Practical Sources	49	(2)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Viderunt Hemanuel	50	(1)
Listening Cue Master Albertus of Paris, Congaudeant Catholici	51	(1)
Summary	51	(1)
Key Terms	52	(1)
Music in Medieval Paris: Polyphony at Notre Dame	52	(9)
Notre Dame of Paris	53	(1)
Leoninus and the Magnus liber organi	54	(4)
Listening Cue Leoninus, Viderunt omnes	56	(2)
Perotinus the Great	58	(3)
Listening Cue Perotinus the Great, Viderunt omnes	60	(1)
Summary	61	(1)
Key Terms	61	(1)
Music in the Cathedral Close and University: Conductus and Motet	61	(9)
Conductus	63	(2)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Orientis partibus	65	(1)
Listening Cue Philip the Chancellor, Dic, Christi veritas	65	(1)
Motet	65	(4)
Listening Cue Anonymous motet, El mois d'avril/O quam sancta/Et gaudebit	68	(1)
Listening Cue Anonymous motet, On parole de batre/A Paris/Frese nouvele	69	(1)
Summary	69	(1)
Key Terms	70	(1)
In the Parisian Master's Study: Music Theory of the ARS Antiqua and ARS Nova	70	(5)
Franco of Cologne and the Art of Measured Song	71	(1)
Jean des Murs and Philippe de Vitry: The Ars Nova	72	(2)
Summary	74	(1)
Key Terms	75	(1)
Music at the Court of the French Kings	75	(7)
The Roman de Fauvel	76	(1)
Listening Cue Gerves de Bus, Roman de Fauvel	76	(1)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Quare fremuerunt gentes	77	(1)
Philippe de Vitry	77	(1)
Listening Cue Philippe de Vitry, Garrit Gallus/In nova fert/Neuma	78	(1)
Royal Dances	78	(2)
Listening Cue Anonymous, La quinte estampie real	80	(1)
Musical Instruments at Court and in Church	80	(1)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Robertsbridge Codex, Estampie	81	(1)
Summary	81	(1)
Key Terms	82	(1)
Fourteenth-Century Music in Reims: Guillaume De Machaut	82	(7)
Machaut, the Black Death, and the Hundred Years' War	83	(1)
Listening Cue Guillaume de Machaut, Hoquetus David	84	(1)
Machaut and the Formes fixes	84	(3)
Listening Cue Guillaume de Machaut, Je puis trop bien	86	(1)
Listening Cue Guillaume de Machaut, Douce dame jolie	87	(1)
Machaut and the Mass of Our Lady	87	(2)
Listening Cue Guillaume de Machaut, Kyrie of the Mass of Our Lady	88	(1)
Summary	89	(1)
Key Terms	89	(1)
Avignon, Symbolic Scores, and the Ars Subtilior	89	(15)
Papal Avignon	89	(2)
Baude Cordier and Symbolic Scores	91	(2)
Listening Cue Baude Cordier, Tout par compas suy composes	92	(1)
Philippus de Caserta: The Ars Subtilior	93	(2)
Listening Cue Philippus de Caserta, Par les bons Gedeons	93	(2)
Summary	95	(1)
Key Terms	95	(1)
Musical Interlude I
From Medieval Manuscript to Modern Performance	95	(9)
Part II THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY RENAISSANCE
Music in Florence, 1350--1450	104	(6)
Trecento Music and the Squarcialupi Codex	105	(2)
Listening Cue Jacopo da Bologna, Non al suo amante	106	(1)
Francesco Landini	107	(3)
Women Making Music in Boccaccio's Decameron	109	(1)
Listening Cue Francesco Landini, Or su, gentili spirti	110	(1)
Summary	110	(1)
Key Terms	110	(1)
Music at the Cathedral of Florence	110	(5)
Musical Number Symbolism	113	(1)
Listening Cue Guillaume Dufay, Nuper rosarum flores	114	(1)
Summary	114	(1)
Key Terms	115	(1)
Music in England	115	(8)
Rondellus and Rota	116	(2)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Sumer is icumen in	118	(1)
English Faburden and Continental Fauxbourdon	118	(1)
King Henry V: The Old Hall Manuscript and the Carol	119	(2)
Vestiges of English Traditions in the ``Country'' Music of Today	121	(1)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Agincourt Carol	121	(1)
John Dunstaple and the Contenance Angloise	121	(2)
Listening Cue John Dunstaple, Quam pulcra es	123	(1)
Summary	123	(1)
Key Terms	123	(1)
Music at the Court of Burgundy	123	(8)
Gilles Binchois and the Burgundian Chanson	125	(2)
Listening Cue Gilles Binchois, Dueil angoisseus	126	(1)
Guillaume Dufay: A Lament and a Mass for the Christian Soldier	127	(4)
Listening Cue Guillaume Dufay, Lamentatio sanctae Matris Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae	129	(2)
Listening Cue Guillaume Dufay, Kyrie of the Missa L'Homme arme	131	(1)
Summary	131	(1)
Key Terms	131	(1)
Music at the French Royal Court	131	(9)
Johannes Ockeghem and Musical Canons	132	(3)
Listening Cue Johannes Ockeghem, Prenez sur moi	133	(1)
Listening Cue Johannes Ockeghem, Kyrie of the Missa Prolationum	134	(1)
A Musical Joke for the French King	135	(1)
Listening Cue Josquin des Prez, Guillaume se va chaufer	136	(1)
Philippe Basiron and the Paraphrase Motet	136	(1)
Listening Cue Philippe Basiron, Salve, Regina	137	(1)
Antoine Busnoys and the Imitative Chanson	137	(2)
Listening Cue Antoine Busnoys, Je ne puis vivre ainsy tousjours	138	(1)
Women Poets and Performers	139	(1)
Summary	139	(1)
Key Terms	140	(1)
Music in the Low Countries	140	(10)
Jacob Obrecht and the Multiple Cantus Firmus Mass	140	(2)
Listening Cue Jacob Obrecht, Credo of the Missa Sub tuum presidium	142	(1)
Musical Instruments	142	(1)
The Basse Danse	143	(2)
Listening Cue Heinrich Isaac, La Spagna	144	(1)
Summary	145	(3)
Part III THE LATE RENAISSANCE
Musical Interlude 2
Musical Humanism and the Renaissance	148	(2)
Popular Music in Florence, 1475--1540: Carnival Song and Lauda, Frottola, and Early Madrigal	150	(8)
The Carnival Song and the Lauda	150	(3)
Listening Cue Lorenzo de' Medici, Sian galanti di Valenza	151	(2)
Listening Cue Girolamo Savonarola, Giesu, sommo conforto	153	(1)
The Frottola	153	(2)
Listening Cue Josquin des Prez, El grillo e bon cantore	155	(1)
The Early Madrigal in Florence	155	(3)
Listening Cue Jacques Arcadelt, Il bianco e dolce cigno	157	(1)
Listening Cue Orazio Vecchi, II bianco e dolce cigno	158	(1)
Summary	158	(1)
Key Terms	158	(1)
Josquin Des Prez and Music In Ferrara	158	(10)
Josquin des Prez	159	(1)
Josquin's Music for Duke Hercules of Ferrara	159	(4)
Listening Cue Josquin des Prez, Sanctus of the Missa Hercules dux Ferrarie	161	(2)
Listening Cue Josquin des Prez, Miserere mei, Deus	163	(1)
Josquin and an Artist's Temperament	163	(1)
Summary	164	(1)
Key Terms	164	(1)
Musical Interlude 3
Music Printing in the Renaissance	165	(3)
Music in Renaissance Paris	168	(9)
The Parisian Chanson	168	(1)
Claudin de Sermisy	169	(2)
Listening Cue Claudin de Sermisy, Tant que vivray	170	(1)
Instrumental Arrangements	171	(2)
Listening Cue Claudin de Sermisy, Tant que vivray arranged for lute	171	(1)
Listening Cue Claudin de Sermisy, Tant que vivray arranged for voice and lute	172	(1)
Listening Cue Claudin de Sermisy, Tant que vivray arranged for keyboard	173	(1)
Dance Music	173	(4)
Thoinot Arbeau: The Dancing Priest	175	(1)
Listening Cue Anonymous, Pavane and Galliard	176	(1)
Summary	177	(1)
Key Terms	177	(1)
Renaissance Instruments and Instrumental Music	177	(13)
Keyboard Instruments	178	(1)
String Instruments	179	(2)
Wind Instruments	181	(1)
Instrumental Genres	182	(3)
Listening Cue Miguel de Fuenllana, Fantasia	184	(1)
Listening Cue Claudio Merulo, Canzona 5	185	(1)
Summary	185	(1)
Key Terms	186	(1)
Musical Interlude 4
Music Theory in the Renaissance	186	(4)
Music in Three German Cities: The Protestant-Catholic Confrontation	190	(13)
Innsbruck: Music under Emperor Maximilian I	191	(3)
Listening Cue Heinrich Isaac, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen	193	(1)
Listening Cue Paul Hofhaimer, Salve, Regina for Organ	194	(1)
The Reformation: Music in Augsburg	194	(4)
Listening Cue Martin Luther, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, Chorale	197	(1)
Listening Cue Johann Walter/Martin Luther, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, 4-part setting	198	(1)
Orlande de Lassus and the Court of Munich	198	(3)
Listening Cue Orlande de Lassus, De profundis clamavi	200	(1)
Epilogue: The Psalter in Other Protestant Countries	201	(1)
Summary	202	(1)
Key Terms	202	(1)
Rome and the Music of the Counter-Reformation	203	(7)
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina	204	(5)
Listening Cue Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Sanctus of the Missa Aeterna Christi munera	206	(1)
Listening Cue Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Tu es Petrus	207	(1)
Listening Cue Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Kyrie of the Missa Tu es Petrus	208	(1)
Spanish Music during the Counter-Reformation	209	(1)
Summary	209	(1)
Key Terms	209	(1)
Music in Elizabethan England: Early Vocal Music	210	(7)
Henry VIII as Musician and Church Reformer	210	(2)
Listening Cue King Henry VIII, Pastyme with Good Companye	211	(1)
The Education of a Renaissance Queen	212	(1)
Thomas Tallis and the English Psalm	212	(2)
Listening Cue Thomas Tallis, Psalm 2	214	(1)
William Byrd and the English Anthem	214	(2)
Listening Cue William Byrd, O Lord, make thy servant, Elizabeth	216	(1)
Summary	216	(1)
Key Terms	217	(1)
Music in Elizabethan England: Instrumental Music and Later Vocal Music	217	(5)
English Keyboard Music	218	(1)
Listening Cue Thomas Morley, Goe from my window	219	(1)
The English Madrigal	219	(2)
Listening Cue Thomas Weelkes, As Vesta Was from Latmos Hill Descending	220	(1)
The English Lute Ayre	221	(1)
Listening Cue John Dowland, Flow my tears	222	(1)
Summary	222	(1)
Key Terms	222	(1)
The Later Madrigal in Ferrara and Mantua: Gesualdo and Monteverdi	222	(11)
The Madrigal in Ferrara	223	(2)
Carlo Gesualdo	225	(2)
Listening Cue Carlo Gesualdo, Moro, lasso	227	(1)
Music in Mantua: Isabella d'Este	227	(1)
Claudio Monteverdi	228	(2)
Listening Cue Claudio Monteverdi, Cruda Amarilli	230	(1)
Summary	230	(1)
Key Terms	231	(2)
Notes	233	(2)
Bibliography	235	(2)
Credits	237	(2)
Glossary	239	(16)
Index	255