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Recordings


Amazon logo [Anthology] The CD accompanying Roden, Timothy J., Craig Wright, and Bryan R. Simms. "Antiquity through the Renaissance." In Anthology for Music in Western Civilization. Vol. A. Belmont, CA: Thomson/Schirmer, 2006. ISBN: 9780495008798.

Amazon logo [NAWM 1996] Palisca, Claude, ed. Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music. Vol. 1. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Sons, 1996. ISBN: 9780393100570.

Amazon logo [NAWM 2006] Burkholder, J. Peter, and Claude Palisca, eds. Norton Recorded Anthology of Western Music. Vol. 1, Ancient to Baroque. 5th ed. New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Sons, 2006. 9780393106084.



Scores


Amazon logo Catholic Church. Graduale Triplex: seu Graduale Romanum Pauli PP. VI cura recognitum & rhythmicis signis a Solesmensibus monachis ornatum / neumis Laudunensibus (cod. 239) et Sangallensibus (codicum San Gallensis 359 et Einsidlensis 121) nunc auctum. Solemes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes, 1979. ISBN: 9782852740440.

———. Cantatorium, IXe siècle, n°359 de la Bibliotheque de Saint-Gall: Paléographie Musicale. Edited by Deuxième Série, Tome deux, and DOM André Mocquereau. Bern, Switzerland: Éditions Herbert Lang & Cie Sa., 1968.

———. Le missel de Bénévent VI-33: Paléographie Musicale. Edited by Tome vingt, DOM Jacques Hourlier, and DOM Jacques Froger. Bern, Switzerland: Peter Lang, 1983.

Hildegard, Saint. Symphonia Harmoniae Caelestium Revelationum . Peer, Belgium: Alamire, 1991.

Amazon logo Pickering, Jane. Jane Pickeringe's Lute Book c. 1616-c. 1650. Kilkenny, Ireland: Boethius Press, 1985. ISBN: 9780863140167.

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) - Virtual Library.



Listening


In addition to professional commercial recordings, this table also features links to some freely distributed amateur recordings and scores (via the Choral Public Domain Library) available on the Web. These supplemental recordings and scores give an introduction to the works, but recordings may lack some of the nuance or critical ear of the professional recordings and the scores may have some inaccuracies.


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Unit 1: Introduction, chant, and medieval music
1

Introduction

Music in the medieval western church

Cycles of the day and of the year

Form of the mass and of the office

2

Preamble: Music in the Greek and Roman world

Mode and chant

Types of chants

Reading modern chant notation

Practice singing the office of sext

Euripides. Stasimon Chorus, Orestes. Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua. Anthology #1.

Seikilos. Epitaph (Skolion), "As long as you live." Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua. Anthology #2.

Anon. Office: Antiphon (Tecum principium) and Psalm (Dixit Dominus). Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #3.

Anon. Mass: Introit (Puer natus est nobis) and Kyrie, from Mass for Christmas Day. Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #5-6.

The Office of Sext (PDF)
3

Types of chants (cont.)

Office review

Chant manuscripts and notation

Syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic chants

Hexachords and the Guidonian hand

Anon. Mass: Gloria I, Gradual (Viderunt omnes), and Alleluia (Allelulia. Dies sanctificatus), from Mass for Christmas Day. Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #7-9.
4

Non-Gregorian chant

Modern chant books

Innovation in the chant repertoire (sequences, tropes)

Liturgical drama and the compositions of Hildegard of Bingham

Other chant traditions in the west and elsewhere

The unending tradition of chant

Tuotilo of St. Gall. Introit trope, Hodie cantandus est nobis. Paul Berry, Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #10.

———. Kyrie trope, Omnipotens genitor. Paul Berry, Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #11.

Anon. Dies irae, dies illa. Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #12.

Hildegard of Bingen. O rubor sanguinis. Anonymous IV. Anthology #13.

———. "Scientia Dei," "Anima," "Stepitus Diaboli," and "Virtues" from Ordo virtutum. Sequentia, Barbara Thornton. Anthology #14.
[Focus especially on #12 and #13]

  • Wipo of Burgandy. Victimae Paschali Laudes.
  • Version 1: from Wikipedia, performed by "Makemi" (complete recording).
  • Amazon logo Version 2: Le jeu des pèlerins d'Emmaüs: drame liturgique du XIIe siècle. Ensemble organum, Marcel Pérès. Harmonia Mundi, 2004.
Wipo of Burgundy. Victimae Paschali Laudes.
Bridge 1: From chant to 1315
5

Secular monophony in the middle ages

Troubadours and trouvères

Court life in the later middle ages

Discussion of previous assignment

Polyphony before the Magnus Liber

Theoretical sources and prehistory

Musica Enchiriadis

Earliest practical sources

Conductus

  • Beatriz de Dia. A chantar m'er.
  • Version 1: Clemencic Consort, René Clemencic. Anthology #15.
  • Version 2: from Wikipedia (complete recording)

Bernart de Ventadorn. Can vei la lauzeta mover. Medieval Ensemble, Martin Best. Anthology #16.

Anon. Viderunt Hemanuel. Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. [A troped polyphonic composition]. Anthology #18.

Magistrar Albertus of Paris. "Congaudeant Catholici" from Codex Calixtinus. Catherine Bott, New London Consort, Philip Pickett. Anthology #19.

6

Polyphony in Paris (Notre Dame) and in the early 13th century

Anonymous IV

Leonin and Perotin

Organum and Discant

Modal rhythm

Ars antiqua motet: Introduction

Leonin. Viderunt Omnes. Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow. Anthology #20.

  • Perotin. Viderunt Omnes.
  • Version 1: Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow. Anthology #21.
    Amazon logo Version 2: From Perotin. Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier. ECM, 2000.

Anon. Orientis partibus ("Song of the Ass"). Orlando Consort, Philip Pickett. Anthology #22.

Anon. Ars antiqua motet: El mois d'avril / O quam sancta / Et gaudebit. Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #24.

Perotin. Viderunt Omnes.
7

Music in the 13th and early 14th century

Motets become secular

Ars antiqua manuscripts

Instrumental music: Danses reals

Roman de Fauvel

Philippe de Vitry

Isorhythm and hocket



Listening quiz 1


Anon. On parole de batre/A Paris/Frese nouvele. The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow. Anthology #25.

Philippe de Vitry. "Garrit Galus," "In nova fert," and "Neuma." From Roman de Fauvel. Sequentia, Barbara Thornton. Anthology #28.

Anon. La quinta estampie real. The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow. Anthology #29.

Anon. On parole de batre / A Paris / Frese nouvele.

La quarte estampie real (PDF)#

Unit 2: Music in the (mainly Italian) fourteenth century
8

Guillaume de Machaut and music in France before 1370

Machaut, poet and musician

Formes fixes

Motets and mass

Reims vs. court life

Machaut and the Gesamtausgabe

Guillaume de Machaut. Hoquetus David. The Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow. Anthology #31.

———. Je puis trop bien. Orlando Consort. Anthology #32.

———. Douce dame jolie. Gothic Voices, Christopher Page. Anthology #33.

  • ———. "Kyrie" from Mass of our Lady (Messe de Notre Dame.)
  • Version 1: Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier. Anthology #34.
    Amazon logo Version 2: Messe de Notre Dame. Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès. Harmonia Mundi, 1996.

Amazon logo ———. "Rose, liz, printemps." The Mirror of Narcissus. Christopher Page, Gothic Voices. Hyperion, 1993.

Guillaume de Machaut. Hoquetus David.

———. Kyrie, Mass of our Lady.

9

Trecento music 1

Discussion and performance of Se per dureça

Principles of Italian notation

Jacopo da Bologna and the madrigal

Francesco and the ballata

Jacopo da Bologna. Non al suo amante. Judith Malafronte, Newberry Consort. Anthology #37. [A two-voice madrigal with text by Petrarch.]

Landini, Francesco. Or su, gentili spiriti. Charlotte Dobbs, Jenna-Claire Kemper, Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #38. [A three-voice ballata.]

10

Trecento music 2: New trends in our knowledge of Italian music

Squarcialupi codex

Other sources

Zachara da Teramo and the Parody mass

Johannes Ciconia and the Motet

Amazon logo Antonio Zachara da Teramo. "Rosetta chi non cambi mai colore." Music for a Medieval Banquet. Newbury Consort. HMF Classical, 2001.

Amazon logo Ciconia, Johannes. "Doctorum Principum/Melodia Suavissima/Vir Mitis." Musicalis Scientia - Il Canto Goliardico nel Medioevo. Roberto Meo, Sator Musicae. Tactus 230001, 1998.

11

Simplicity and complexity

Keyboard music

Cantus Planus Binatim

Ars Subtilior

Cordier, Baude. Tout par compas suy composés. Ensemble Organum, Marcel Pérès. Anthology #35.

Philippus [or Philippcoctus] de Caserta. Par les bons Gedeons. Orlando Consort. Anthology #36.

Exam 1
Bridge 2: The continental renaissance
12

The Renaissance and music 1420-1460

Guillaume Dufay and his contemporaries

The English sound

Fauxbourdon

Motets and cyclic masses

Ockeghem and the canon

Amazon logo Dufay, Guillaume. "Adieu ces bons vins de Lannoys." The Garden of Zephirus. Gothic Voices, Christopher Page. Hyperion, 1992.

———. Nuper Rosarum Flores. Pomerium, Alexander Blachly. Anthology #39.

Anon. "L'homme armé." Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #44.

Dufay, Guillaume. Kyrie from Missa L'homme armé. Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly. Anthology #45.

Ockeghem, Johannes. Kyrie from Missa Prolationem. The Clerks' Group, Edward Wickham. Anthology #47.

Dufay. Nuper Rosarum Flores.

Anon. "L'homme armé."

13

Vocal music: Josquin, his contemporaries, and his followers

Patronage

Documents and manuscripts

Josquin and his (or someone else's?) innovations; "Ave Maria"

"The pervasive myth of pervasive imitation"

Obrecht, "Credo" from Missa sub tuum presidium. Capella Lipsiensis, Dietrich Knothe. Anthology #51.

  • Josquin des Prez. El Grillo è bon Cantore.
  • Version 1: Musica Antiqua of London, Philip Thorby. Anthology #55.
  • Version 2: by dwsChorale, see Josquin Wikipedia page.

Amazon logo ———. "Ave Maria…virgo serena." Motets & Chansons. Hilliard Ensemble, Paul Hillier. EMI Classics, 1997.

Josquin des Prez. El Grillo è bon Cantore.

Amazon logo ———. "Ave Maria…virgo serena." In Anthology of Renaissance Music. Edited by New York, NY: W.W. Norton and Sons, 1998, pp. 159-66. ISBN: 9780393971699.

———. "Ave Maria…virgo serena."

14

Other innovations in continental music, 1460-1550

Palestrina and Lasso

Dance and keyboard music

Instrumental forms

French song

Protestantism and music

Palestrina, Giovanni. "Kyrie." From Missa Tu es Petrus. Choir of King's College, Stephen Cleobury. Anthology #70.

Claudin de Sermisy. Tant que vivray. (c. 1528) In original form and arrangment for voice and lute. Catherine Bott. Anthology #60.

Isaac, Heinrich. Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen (c. 1515). Collegium Köln, Wolfgang Fromm. Anthology #64b.

Luther, Martin and Johann Walter. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott (c. 1529). Cappella Giulia, Nicolas Jones. Anthology #66.

Claudin de Sermisy. Tant que vivray.

Isaac, Heinrich. Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen.

Walter, Johann. Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott.

Unit 3: Elizabethan London
15

From Dunstaple to Elizabeth: Tudor England

The Elizabethan Madrigal (Weelkes, Gibbons, etc.) and its Italian predecessors

Music printing

Arcadelt, Jacques. Il bianco e dolce cigno (c. 1538). Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley. Anthology #56.

Vecchi, Orazio. Il bianco e dolce cigno (c. 1589). Capella Antiqua, Konrad Ruhland. Anthology #57. (skim)

King Henry VIII. "Pastyme with Good Companye" (c. 1520). Capilla Flamenca. Anthology #71. (skim)

Weelkes, Thomas. "As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending." Pro Cantione Antiqua. Anthology #75. (skim)

Arcadelt, Jacques. Il bianco e dolce cigno.

Vecchi, Orazio. Il bianco e dolce cigno.

King Henry VIII. "Pastyme with Good Companye."

Weelkes, Thomas. "As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending."

16

Chapel Royal

Catholicism and Anglicanism in England (William Byrd)

Music education, instruction, and theory (Thomas Morley)

Amazon logo Byrd, William. "Though Amaryllis Dance in Green" (from Psalmes, Sonets, & Songs of sadnes and pietie, made into Musicke of fiue parts). Byrd: Music for Voice and Viols. In Nomine Players, Russell Oberlin. Lyrichord, 1995.

———. O Lord, Make thy servant, Elizabeth (c. 1570). King's Singers. Anthology #73.

Amazon logo ———. Quomodo cantabimus. Motets; Mass for 4 voices with Propers. The Sixteen, Harry Christophers. Virgin Classics 7-91133-2, 1990.

Morley, Thomas. April is in my Mistress' Face. Hilliard Ensemble, Peter Hillier.

Byrd, William. "Though Amaryllis Dance in Green." (PDF)#

———. O Lord, Make thy Servant, Elizabeth.

Morley, Thomas. April is in my Mistress' Face.

17

Instrumental music and lute song (Doug Freundlich, guest performer/lecturer)

Dowland and lute song

Consort music

Jane Pickering lute book ("Toys;" "Maids in Constrite")

"Can She Excuse?"

"Woods So Wild?" (William Byrd setting no. 30)

"Fitzwilliam Virginal Book"

Dowland, John. "Flow My Tears" (1600). Barbara Bonney, Academy of Ancient Music, Christoper Hogwood. Anthology #76.

Amazon logo ———. "Can She Excuse My Wrongs?" from First Book of Songes (1597). I Saw My Lady Weep: Dowland's Songs and Lachrimae. Studio der fruehen Musik, Thomas Binkley. Archiv Produktion, 2002.

Amazon logo ———. "The Earl of Essex Galiard." Lachrimae or Seauen Tears. Dowland Consort. Bis 1994.

Amazon logo Byrd, William. "The Woods So Wild." Pieces from the "Fitzwilliam Virginal Book." Ursula Duetschler. Claves, 1995.

Dowland, John. Lachrimae. Leeds, UK: Boethius Press, 1974. [Reprint of the c.1605 edition.]

———. "Flow My Tears."

———. "Can She Excuse My Wrongs?"

18

Music in society: The cries of London

More secular music in England

More keyboard music

In Nomine music



Listening quiz 2


Amazon logo Selections from Cries and Ballades of London. Circa 1500. CRD, 1998.

  • Ravenscroft, Thomas. "New Oysters" from Pammelia; and "Three Blind Mice" from Deuteromelia.

Dowland, John. "Fine Knacks for Ladies."

  • Tye, Christopher. "In Nomine." Crye.

Songs of Thomas Ravenscroft (PDF)#

Dowland, John. "Fine Knacks for Ladies."

Bridge 3: Missed traditions in the late renaissance
19

Chromaticism in the late 16th-century Italian madrigal

The dances and writings of Michael Praetorius

Gesualdo, Carlo. "Moro, lasso" (1613). Manfred Schreier. Anthology #77.

Amazon logo Praetorius, Michael. "Voltas" (dances 210, 211, 236, 201), and "Bransle simple" (dance 1). Dances from Terpsichore. New London Consort, Philip Pickett. Polygram, 1990.

Amazon logo Certon, Pierre. "La, la, la, je ne lo dire." Madrigal History Tour. King's Singers. EMI Classics, 2004.

Gesualdo, Carlo. "Moro, lasso."

Certon, Pierre. "La, la, la, je ne lo dire."

Topic 4: Music in Venice 1570-1660
20

Maestri di cappella Venice: (Rore), Williaert

(Andrea and) Giovanni Gabrieli and music in the Basilica of S. Marco

Cori spezzati. Gabrieli's music for brass

Preamble to the Baroque and the rise of a new style: Florentine Camerata; Peri, Cavalieri, etc. (early monody)

Basso Continuo

Merulo, Claudio. Canzona 5 (c. 1600). Washington Cornett and Sackbutt Ensemble, Michael Holmes. Anthology #63.

Amazon logo Gabrieli, Giovanni. "Sonata pian e forte a 8," from Sacrae Symphoniae (Venice 1597). The Canzonas and Sonatas from Sacrae Symphoniae 1597. His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts. Hyperion, 1997.

Willaert, Adrian. Aspro core e selvaggio (mid 1540s). NAWM 1996, disc 2.

Caccini, Giulio. Perfidissimo volto, "solo madrigal" (c. 1590). NAWM 1996.

Peri, Jacopo. Three excerpts from Le musiche sopra l'Euridice (1600). NAWM 1996, disc 3.

21Monteverdi (1567-1642) before and in Venice

Monteverdi, Claudio. Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda. Capella Savaria, Nicholas McGegan. Hungaroton HCD 12952, 1994.

———. "Zefiro Torna." Songs of Love and Death. Red Byrd. Factory FAC 336, 1990.

———. L'incoronazione di Poppea, Act I, scene 3. NAWM 2006.

Monteverde, Claudio. Combatimento di Tancredi et Clorinda.

———. Zefiro Torna.

22

Opera in Venice after Monteverdi

Barbara Strozzi

Venice's influence: Heinrich Schütz

Instrumental music in Venice

Strozzi, Barbara. Lagrime Mie (1650s). NAWM 1996.

Schütz, Heinrich. Saul, was verfolgst du mich? (1650). Saul: Symphoniae Sacrae III. Musica Fiata, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius. Deutsche Harmonia Mundia, 1989.

Marini, Biagio. Sonata IV per il violino per sonar con due corde (ca. 1626). Romanesca. Harmonia Mundia USA, 1997.

Cavalli, Francesco. Giasone, act I, scene 6 (7). Concerto Vocale, Rene Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi.

Strozzi, Barbara. Lagrime Mie.

Schütz, Heinrich. Saul, was verfolgst du mich?

Exam 2
Conclusion: Other baroque music / music towards the end of the seventeenth century
23

Non-Venetian developments: Oratorio: Carissimi, Jephte

Jewish music published in Venice

Church music towards the end of the century

Amazon logo Carissimi, Giacomo. Selections from Jephte (ca. 1648). Jepthe; Jonas; Judicium. Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, His Majesties Sagbutts & Cornetts. Erato 2292-45466-2, 1992.

Amazon logo Rossi, Salamone. Hashirim asher l'Shlomo [Songs of Solomon] (1623), Psalm 128 a 6. The Songs of Solomon. Corvina Consort, Zoltán Kalmanovits. Hungaroton 2006.

de Araujo, Juan. Los conflades de la estleya (late 1600s). NAWM 1996.

Amazon logo Locke, Matthew. O Be Joyful in the Lord, All Ye Lands (1664). From Anthems, Motets, & The Oxford Ode. The Choir of New College Oxford, The Parley of Instruments, Edward Higginbottom. Hyperion CDA 66373 1993.

de Araujo, Juan. Los Conflades de la estleya.

24Music in the 1680s

Corelli, Arcangelo. Trio Sonata op. 3 no. 2 (mvmts 1-2). From NAWM 2006.

de la Guerre, Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet. Mvt. 1 (Prelude) and 2 (Allemande). Suite no. 3 in A-minor. From NAWM 2006.

Lully, Jean-Baptiste. "Finally, he's in my power" from Armide.

Purcell, Henry. "Thy Hand Belinda…When I am laid to rest." Dido and Aeneas. From NAWM, Tracks 19 and 20. From NAWM 2006.

Purcell, Henry. Dido and Aeneas.

 








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