How To Aurally Identify An Early Middle Ages Composition ca500-1000

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Instructions

Required length: 400-1,000 words.

his assignment you are asked to include a link to a composition from each of the three time periods from the Middle Ages: early, middle and late, and provide comments on what distinguishes them.

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The era from ca500 to 1400 is referred to as the Middle Ages or Medieval Era. The term comes from the fact that it is between two eras, Antiquity and the Renaissance. However, there were some significant musical advances made during this time which included the use of enhanced music notation, harmony, and rhythm, setting the stage for the more advanced music of later eras.

In order for links to the Naxos Music Library to work, you must already be logged into the Berklee Library. Review the demo video how to access the Naxos Music Library:

https://youtu.be/VI8ya10Mu5s

Part 1:

  1. Choose a Gregorian Chant melody from the early part of the era, ca500-1000 that was not featured in lesson 1 or 2. Do not use the same melody that you included in your assignment 1 post. It can be a work from the course textbook or from another source such as the Naxos Library. Most works from this time were anonymous with the exception of a few composers including Hildegard of Bingen (lesson 2).

  2. Include the link to a composition from one of the Naxos Music Library albums or via YouTube or Spotify. If you do not have a berklee.edu email address and login, in order for the links to work, first go to your Avatar in the upper right of the course page and choose “Library Resources.” This will open the Berklee Library in another tab in your web browser. Go back to this link and the Naxos Library links should open.

  3. Include the title of the piece and the composer. If the composer is unknown, list it as Anonymous.

  4. Describe, in your own words, why this selection fits the predominant musical style during the early part of the era with regard to monophonic/polyphonic and rhythm. Support your comments with references to the course textbook in the MLA style.

  5. Include a few sentences on how one could aurally identify an early Middle Ages composition ca500-1000.

  6. Include one or more references to the course textbook to support your comments. Use the MLA format to indicate your sources.

Part 2:

  1. Choose a polyphonic composition from the Notre Dame School from the Ars Antiqua (1170-1300 – Lesson 3). Choose a composition by Leonin (Leoninus), Perotin (Perotinus) or a composition by an anonymous composer; that was not featured in lesson 3 and is characteristic of the Notre Dame Polyphonic style.

  2. Include the link to a composition from one of the Naxos Music Library albums or via YouTube or Spotify. The links below are to the Naxos Library. If you do not have a berklee.edu email address and login, in order for the links to work, first go to your Avatar in the upper right of the course page and choose “Library Resources.” This will open the Berklee Library in another tab in your web browser. Go back to this link and the Naxos Library links should open.

  3. Include the title of the piece and the composer. If the composer is unknown, list it as Anonymous.

  4. List the genre (sacred or secular) and the form (mass, motet).

  5. Describe, in your own words, why this selection fits the predominant musical style during the middle of the era with regard to monophonic/polyphonic and use of rhythm. Support your comments with references to the course textbook in the MLA style.

  6. Include a few sentences on how one could aurally identify works from this part of the Middle Ages, the Ars Antiqua, such as listening for harmony and/or the style of rhythm.

  7. Include one or more references to the course textbook to support your comments. Use the MLA format to indicate your sources.

Part 3:

  1. Choose a polyphonic composition by either Machaut or Landini, the two main composers from the late Middle Ages (1300-1400) known as the Ars Nova or “new art.” It should be a composition that was not presented in lesson 4.

  2. Include the link to a composition from one of the Naxos Music Library albums or via YouTube or Spotify. The links below are to the Naxos Library. If you do not have a berklee.edu email address and login, in order for the links to work, first go to your Avatar in the upper right of the course page and choose “Library Resources.” This will open the Berklee Library in another tab in your web browser. Go back to this link and the Naxos Library links should open.

  3. Include the title of the piece and the composer’s name.

  4. List the genre (sacred or secular) and the form (mass, motet, virelai, rondeau, ballade).
    – If it is from a mass, identify the specific part of the mass that you are analyzing. For example: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, or Agnus Dei.

  5. Describe, in your own words, why this selection fits the predominant musical style during the later part of the era regarding the style of polyphony and use of rhythm. Support your comments with references to the course textbook in the MLA style.

  6. Include a few sentences to describe the advancements during the Ars Nova and Italian Ars Nova that include mensural notation or measured rhythm.

  7. Use the MLA format to indicate your sources. Books: Music in Western Civilization by Wright and Simms or A History of Western Music Ninth Edition by Burkholder, Grout, and Palisca.

 

 

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