Polyphony Organum and Some Other Stuff Do Now
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Polyphony, Organum and Some Other Stuff
Do Now: Listen to the following song – how many different lines do you think you hear? How else would you describe this piece of music?
Polyphony – hearing multiple lines of music at the same time. ◦ Polyphony was originally improvisation on Gregorian chant. Organum – the original polyphony. ◦ The second voice was usually four or five notes above the first voice. ◦ Vox principalis – the first (original) line. ◦ Vox organalis – the second line
Playing Organum Everybody is going to have a chance to play organum – xylophone 1 will follow the red letters and xylophone 2 will follow the blue letters! Parallel motion A G C B B A D F E E D C
Like parallel lines that never meet!
Playing Organum Everybody is going to have a chance to play organum – xylophone 1 will follow the red letters and xylophone 2 will follow the blue letters! G G C C F G F E D D D C
The Importance of Notre Dame Harder music = better way of writing. ◦ They actually added rhythm! The School of Notre Dame in Paris was the most important music center of the time. With it came the motet. ◦ Motet – a piece of music with several voices that move in different rhythms and directions with different words.
