MUSIC 2701: CLASS AND HOMEWORK GUIDE

(F 16, subject to change)

MUSIC OF ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE

AGES

**Make sure to check Moodle for any changes to this homework guide**

-Date listed is the date assigned; homework is due at beginning of the next class. ( = today)
-Abbreviations: R =Thursday, T=Tuesday, H = homework, P=project
-Listening is through Study Space online. Please follow score and discussion in your Norton
Anthology (NAWM). If the music has words, read all texts and translations! For each work
learn the genre, composer (if applicable), subject matter, style, & performance context.
ALL ASSIGNMENTS DUE AT BEGINNING OF CLASS!

1) T 8/23: MUSIC OF THE ANCIENT WORLD AND MIDDLE AGES

CLASS: Introduction to course, chant in many cultures, Greek culture and music
HOMEWORK
H: read pp. 2-26; study Terms to know.
H: GROUP PROJECT: read and summarize Power of Music readings (readings and
question sheet on Moodle) and answer question at bottom of page. Discuss with
your group members and present your summary and discussion during class on
Tuesday. DUE beginning of next class: Thursday, 8/25
Listening: Epitaph of Sekilos (read text translation)
***Extra credit: a short performance of a secular song for R (9/1); see me after class if you are
interested (both instrumentalists and singers). You will perform it once in a Medieval way (sung,
with drone and/or percussion) and once again in your own arrangement, in any musical style!!***

R 8/25: CLASS: Power of Music assignment due at beginning of class

-Discussion of Power of Music
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HOMEWORK
H: read pp. 27-36
Listening: Mass chants for Xmas Day (read texts and listen!)

2) T 8/30: CLASS: QUIZ 1 at beginning of class

-Introduction to the Middle Ages: background, early Church, spread of Christianity
-Types of chant: psalm tones, antiphons, Mass chants, tropes, sequences
HOMEWORK:
H: read pp. 36-42;
H: learn to read chant notation (neumes): compare Salve Regina exs. in text (p. 34).
H: transcribe your assigned chant [P = project] and be able to sing it from square
notation! due T 10/6.
Listening :
-Vespers psalm and antiphon for Christmas Day
-Victimae pachali laudes (sequence)
-Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum (conclusion)

R 9/1: Happy birthday Dr. Stein!

CLASS: Chant transcription due at beginning of class, (troubadour performances)
-Singing from Square notation!
-Medieval Music Theory
-Secular monophony (Troubador, Trouvre, Troubairitz, Meistersinger songs)
-Performance of Medieval songs (traditional and modern versions; see 10/7)-Early
HOMEWORK
H: read pp. 42-48
Listening:
-Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover
-Comtessa de Dia: A chantar
-Adam de la Halle: Jeu de Robin et de Marion
-Cantiga 159: Non sofre Santa Maria (from Cantigas de Santa Maria)

3) T 9/6: CLASS: QUIZ 2 at beginning of class

-Polyphony: early organum, rhythmic modes, Notre Dame organum DONT MISS!
HOMEWORK
H: read pp. 49-58
Listening:
-Allelluia Justus ut palma
-Three settings of the Gradual chant Viderunt omnes (an organum duplum by
Lonin an anonymous substitute clausula and an organum quadruplum by Protin)
 P: write your own chant! write or choose a spiritual text; set it as chant in a
particular mode (write the number of the mode at the top); write it in modern
notation; include some syllabic, neumatic, and melismatic text setting; you may
also indicate a performance type (antiphonal, direct, responsorial). BE
PREPARED TO SING IT!) (due R 9/8)

R 9/8: CLASS: Chant Composition assignment due at beginning of class

-Early Polyphony, continued: conductus, 13th c. motet
-Performance of composed chants (as assigned on 10/4)
HOMEWORK
H: read pp. 58-65
Listening:
-Conductus Ave virgo virginum
-Motets on Tenor Dominus
-Adam de la Halle: De ma dame vient/Dieus, comment porroie/Omnes (motet)

4) T 9/13: CLASS: QUIZ at beginning of class

-Fourteenth Century Music: Ars Nova, Machaut (isorhythm, motets, Mass, formes fixes)
-Italian trecento music (Landini) and the later ars subtilior
HOMEWORK
H: read pp. 66-85, work on your Midterm Study Guide and think up a Medieval name
and sound for your Jeopardy team.
Listening:
-Sumer is icumen in (a famous rota)
-Philip de Vitry: Cum statua/Hugo, Hugo/Magister invidie (isorhythmic motet)
-Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame (Kyrie)
-Machaut: Douce dame jolie (monophonic virelai)
-Landini: Cosi pensoso (caccia)

R 9/15 CLASS:
-Fourteenth-century theory, notation, instruments; review and questions for midterm.
HOMEWORK
H: *Study for Midterm* BRING QUESTIONS TO NEXT CLASS!
Listening: listen to musical examples and study according to your Study Guide.
decide on a name and sound (both related to Medieval music) for your team.

5) T 9/20: CLASS:
-Review for Midterm!! (Antiquity and Middle Ages)*
-Medieval Jeopardy (quiz show!)

R 9/22 **MEDIEVAL EXAM** YOU DO NOT NEED A SCANTRON SHEET.