1. MUH 3211 - Music History I “Polyphony to 1300”
12/1/2018
Chapter 2
“Polyphony to 1300”
DAY 9 (25 Sep 17)

2. Cathedral of Notre Dame (Paris)
Notre Dame Organum
New Building - begun in 1163
Magnus Liber Organi (not an actual book) (3 primary sources)
Extensive repertoire of polyphonic mass pieces - 2vv = Léonin - 3vv & 4 vv = Perotin
Described by Anonymous IV
Cathedral of Notre Dame (Paris)

3. Notre Dame (Paris) Nave
MUH Music History I
Notre Dame (Paris) Nave
12/1/2018
DAY 9 (25 Sep 17)

4. Léonin (fl. c. 1150s – 1201) Two-voice organum Two types
Free/unmeasured (no meter)
Measured (rhythmicized) - “Discant Organum”
Chant in lower voice
Léonin - Christmas Mass (Gradual: “Viderunt Omnes” – 8:07)
Anthology I/11
Wolfenbüttel 628 = W1 (25r)

5. Perotin (fl. c. 1200) Quadrupla and Tripla
Lowest voice holds the Chant (tenore)
Upper voices move rhythmically
“Rhythmic Modes” - based on ligatures
Perotin - "Viderunt omnes" (quadrupla)
Anthology I/12
Florence I.29 = “F” (1r)

6. Clausula Discant organum - rhythmicized
Self-contained musical unit (based on text)
Substitute sections - “assemble” the mass - all text performed
Ex. Clausula on “Dominus” (for Gradual: “Haec dies”) – Anthology I/13
“in seculum” clasulae

7. 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)

8. 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