1. MUH 3211 - Music History I “Polyphony to 1300”
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Chapter 2
“Polyphony to 1300”
DAY 10 (27 Sep 17)

2. Motet Factum est salutare / Dominus (Anthology I/14)
Clausula re-texted (!)
“mot” [Fr.] = “word” [Eng.]
Chant fragment at bottom
Duplum (motetus) above
3vv Motets add Triplum
Polytexts (multiple languages)
Super Te / Sed fulsit / Dominus (Anthology I/15)
A Paris / On Parole / Frese nouvelle (Anthology I/16)

3. Mensural Notation Limits of “rhythmic modes” (early 13th c)
Franco of Cologne (Franconian notation) - Ars cantus mensurabilis (c )
Assigns note values to specific shapes (!) - Long – Breve – Semibreve
Divisions are either duple or triple (see textbook) - triple is “perfection”
Petrus de Cruce (c. 1280) (Petronian notation) - allows up to 9 semibreves in a breve - adds minum and semiminum

4. MUH 3211 - Music History I “Music in the 14th Century”
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Chapter 3
“Music in the 14th Century”
DAY 10 (27 Sep 17)

5. The “Ars Nova”
Increasing rhythmic complexity after use of smallest values (minum and semiminum) - use of duple meters and divisions
Philippe de Vitry ( ) - Ars nova (c. 1320)
Johannes de Muris (c ) - Ars novae musicae (c. 1320)
New style criticized by Pope John XXII, et al.
Ars Nova = post-1300
Ars Antiqua = pre-1300, esp. Notre Dame

6. Le Roman de Fauvel (c. 1316) Gervais de Bus, author
Allegory on corruption - both secular and religious
Fauvel (horse/ass) - acronym for vices
Ascends to throne - lives in royal house -attended by humans
Fortuna (fate) allows marriage to Vainglory
Gives birth to more Fauvels (Anti-Christs!)

7. Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361) French courtier/musician Multi-talented
MUH Music History I
Philippe de Vitry ( )
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French courtier/musician
Multi-talented
Ars nova treatise (1320)
Le Roman de Fauvel
Use of Isorhythm (see next slide)
Many Motets (but…)
…uncertain authorship
DAY 10 (27 Sep 17)

8. Isorhythm 14th-c organizing principal for rhythm
Imposed on chant/non-rhythmicized melodies
Talea (“segment”/“cut”) = rhythm pattern
Color = pitches
Ex. Garrit gallus / In nova fert / [Neuma] (Anthology I/18)
Talea & color in tenor