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    The document summarizes different periods and genres of Western music history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It provides examples of plainchant from the Middle Ages, including the text and English translation of "In Paradisum." It also describes organum from the Middle Ages, noting Perotin's "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" as an example. The document concludes with a brief description of the French chanson and mentions Guillaume de Machaut's "a Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" as an example of the genre.

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    The document summarizes different periods and genres of Western music history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It provides examples of plainchant from the Middle Ages, including the text and English translation of "In Paradisum." It also describes organum from the Middle Ages, noting Perotin's "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" as an example. The document concludes with a brief description of the French chanson and mentions Guillaume de Machaut's "a Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" as an example of the genre.

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    The document summarizes different periods and genres of Western music history from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. It provides examples of plainchant from the Middle Ages, including the text and English translation of "In Paradisum." It also describes organum from the Middle Ages, noting Perotin's "Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia" as an example. The document concludes with a brief description of the French chanson and mentions Guillaume de Machaut's "a Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient" as an example of the genre.

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    Periods of Music

    1. Middle Ages (300AD-1400)


    2. Renaissance (1400-1600)
    3. Baroque (1600-1750)
    4. Classical (1750-early 1800s)
    5. Romantic (early 1800s-1900)
    6. Twentieth-century
    Plainchant / Chant / (Gregorian Chant): sacred music performed at church
    services that
    1) is monophonic
    2) un-metered
    3) usually has a conjunct melodic line with a narrow range
    4) has a Latin, sacred text
    5) accompanies a ritual
    In Paradisum
    In paradsum : dedcant te Angeli :
    in to advntu suscpiant te Mrtyres, et
    perdcant te in civittem snctam
    Jersalem.
    Chrus Angelrum te suscpiat,
    et cum Lzaro quondam pupere
    aetrnam hbeas rquiem.

    May the Angels lead you into paradise:


    may the Martyrs take you up at your
    coming and lead you into the holy city
    of Jerusalem.
    May the Choir of Angels take you up,
    and with Lazarus, who was once poor,
    may you have eternal rest.

    Organum (organa, pl): genre based on polyphonic elaboration of pre-existent


    chant (cultivated 900-1200)
    Golden age of organum: 12th-13th century at Notre Dame de Paris

    Perotin (c. 1200) Organum, Alleluia. Diffusa est gratia


    Text:
    Alleluia, Alleluia
    Difussa est gratia in labiis tuis; propterea benedixit te deus in aeternum.
    (Grace has been poured out upon your lips; therefore, God has blessed you
    eternally Psalm 44:3)
    Alleluia

    Monophonic
    Melody A
    Alleluia

    Melody A + melodic extension


    Alleluia

    Polyphonic (Organum treatment)


    Difussa est gratia in labiis tuis; proptere benedixit te deus

    Monophonic
    Melody A + melodic extension
    in aeternum

    Melody A + melodic extension


    Alleluia

    Polyphonic French Chanson: polyphonic French song on a secular subject.


    Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300-1377)
    a Dame, de qui toute ma joie vient

    Lady, source of all my joy,


    I can never love or cherish you too much,

    a' Nasss loer, si com il apartient

    Or praise you as much as you deserve,


    Or serve, respect, honor, and obey you.

    b Car le gracious espoi,

    For the gracious hope,


    Sweet lady, I have of seeing you,
    Gives me a hundred times more joy and boon
    Than I could deserve in a hundred thousand years.

    Je ne vous puis trop amer et chierir


    Servir, doubter, honourer nober.
    Douce dame, que jay de vous voir,
    Me fait cent fois plus de bien et de joie
    Quen cent mille ans desservir ne porroie.

    Courtly love: a code of love where the courtly lover idealizes and idolizes his
    beloved from a distance.

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