1. MUH 3211 - Music History I “Music in the 14th Century”
9/20/2018
Chapter 3
“Music in the 14th Century”
DAY 12 (2 Oct 17)

2. Ars subtilior “the more subtle art” Late 14th century (c. 1375-1400+)
France, esp., south (Avignon Popes)
Secular songs (nothing sacred)
deliberately complex rhythms, etc.
Notational tricks (visual and other)
Use of colored inks
Canons (based on verbal puzzles, etc.)

3. Jacob Senleches “La harpe de mélodie”
“Chantilly Codex”
Chicago, Newberry Library MS 54.1

4. Baude Cordier “Belle, Bonne, Sage”
“Chantilly Codex”

5. Trecento = 1300s in Italy ([mille]trecento)
Primarily secular vocal music
Squarcialupi Codex – chief source
353 pieces from
Poetic forms: ballata, madrigal, caccia, etc.
Chiefly 2vv and 3vv
Anthology I Exs. by Jacopo da Bologna (25), Francesco Landini (next slide), & Lorenzo da Firenze (26)

6. Francesco Landini (c. 1325-1397)
MUH Music History I
9/20/2018
Francesco Landini (c )
"Eco la primavera" (ballata) (Anthology I/24)
DAY 12 (2 Oct 17)

7. England Small body of works Preference to thirds
“Sumer is icumen in” Anthology I/28
Oldest known canon (c. 1250!)
Rota (round) over Pes
"Edi Beo Thu Hevene Quene" Anthology I/29

8. Medieval Instrumental Music
Instruments used to : - accompany voices - double voice - play w/o voices
Almost nothing notated
Intabulation
Robertsbridge Codex (14th c)
Faenza Codex (early 15th c)
Estampie “Retrove” (c. 1360) - organ - Lute and Recorder - Modern Piano

9. MUH 3211 - Music History I The Renaissance: Prelude
9/20/2018
Part II
The Renaissance: Prelude
DAY 12 (2 Oct 17)

10. The Renaissance “Rebirth” of ideas from Classical Antiquity
c – 1600 (roughly for music)
Fall of Constantinople to Turks (1453) - Scholars of Greek flee west to….
Italy – Center of Western revival - rising population, resources, city-states - e.g., Cosimo de’ Medici (Florence)
“Low Countries” – major source of patronage
HRE – expands powers & influences
Spain – expulsion of Muslims; Empire