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The First Literate Repertory in Western Music
Gregorian Chant
Ancient and Preliterate Music
• Archeological Evidence• Biblical Descriptions• Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece• Pitch-specific notation– Letters and symbols
• Philosophical writings• Plato, Republic “because more than anything else rhythm
and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it.”
• Theories of Music
Transmission of Ancient Greek Theory
• Theories of Music– Pythagoras (6th Century BCE)• Harmonic ratios
– St. Augustine (354–430)• De Musica (About Music) (391 CE)
– Boethius (ca. 480 – ca. 524)• De institutione musica (On the
Organization of Music)– Musica mundana– Musica humana– Musica instrumentalis
Historical Imagination
• Development of Early Notation– “diatonic pitch set”
• Early Christian Church– Monophonic chant– Latin
Christian Beginnings
• Byzantine Empire– Byzantine Chant, Hymns
• Western Roman Church– Roman Chant– Roman Liturgy
The Legend of St. Gregory
• Pope Gregory I (Pope from 590–
604)• Standardization of Roman
Chant
The Development of the Liturgy
• The Offices– Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers,
Compline– Recitation of the 150 Psalms• Cantillation• Psalm Tone
– Hymn– Antiphons– Responds
The Development of the Liturgy
• The Mass– Public reenactment of Christ’s last supper– Proper (words change from day to day)– Ordinary (words remain the same)• Kyrie• Gloria• Credo• Sanctus• Agnus Dei
Chant Notation
• Neumes– Contour and placement of notes in relation to text
syllables
Chant Notation
• Guido of Arezzo– Micrologus (ca. 1028)• Earliest guide to staff notation• “sight singing”– Ut queant laxis– Hexachord (6-note diatonic
segment)» ut—re—mi—fa—sol—la
• “Guidonian Hand”
Modal Theory
• Psalm Tones• Tonaries• Antiphons
Modal TheoryMedieval Church Modes
• Authentic– 1. Dorian
• D E F G A B C D– 3. Phryigian
• E F G A B C D E– 5. Lydian
• F G A B C D E F– 7. Mixolydian
• G A B C D E F G
• Plagal (“Lower”)– 2. Hypodorian
• A B C D E F G A – 4. Hypophryigian
• B C D E F G A B– 6. Hypolydian
• C D E F G A B C– 8. Hypomixolydian
• D E F G A B C D
Psalmody in Practice
• The Office • Psalmody– reciting tone or tenor– flexus– mediant– termination– Psalm 91 [Anthology 1-2a] Justus ut palma
Psalmody in Practice
• The Mass• Proper Chants– Introit [Anthology 1-2b]– Offertory [Anthology 1-2c]• melismatic, melismas
– Alleluia [Anthology 1-2d]• Jubilus
– Gradual [Anthology 1-3a, b]
The Mass– Introit
• Kyrie [Anthology 1-4a, b]• Gloria [Anthology 1-4c]
• Reading from Paul’s Epistles
– Gradual– Alleluia (or Tract during
Lent)• Reading from the
Gospels• Credo [Anthology 1-4d]
– Offertory [Anthology 1-4e]
• Sanctus• Canon and Pater
noster• Agnus Dei [Anthology 1-4f]– Communion– Ite, missa est
Frankish Additions to the Chant Repertory
• Sequentia• Sequence– Dies irae [Anthology 1-5a]
Hildegard of Bingen(1098–1179)
• Symphonia armonie celestium revelationum– Sequence: Columba aspexit (The dove looked in)
[Anthology 1-6]
Hymns, Tropes, and Liturgical Drama
• Hymns– Ave maris stella [Anthology 1-7a]– Pange lingua [Anthology 1-7b]– Veni creator spiritus [Anthology 1-7c]
Hymns, Tropes, and Liturgical Drama
• Tropes– Added material (music, words, or both)– Liturgical Drama• Quem quaeritis in sepulchro [Anthology 1-8a]
Marian Antiphons
• Votive antiphon• Marian Antiphons– Salve, Regina [Anthology 1-9a, b]
Polyphony
• Symphonia• Musica enchiriadis
(Handbook of Music) • Scolica enchiriadis
(Commentary on the Handbook)– Late 9th century– Organum
• Vox principalis• Vox organalis• occursus
Organum and Discant
• Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus– Section on organum
• Polyphonic composition– Chartres fragment
• John Afflighem, De musica– Discant