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MSCY 511/611 Take-home quiz #1

2. Describe in detail how organum developed from early examples such as Alleluia
Justus ut Palma and “florid organum” such as jubilees, exultemus to the organum
composed at the Notre Dame cathedral by Leonin and Perotin. In what specific
ways did organum evolve from the earlier examples to the organum composed at
Notre Dame?

- In the early organum most often have to used the intervals as 3, 4, 5 and
sing together in heterophony styles on 2 voices but in the rhythm can’t
counting or tapping the beat because singer can be improvise some note
add on when singing in the later at Florid Organum the lower part singing in
the long note it called “Tenor” and the upper part sing the many melisima
technique but in the rhythm still can’t counting the beat exactly and in the
later when Paris become a center of the culture in Europe Notre Dame
cathedral is was center of musical development too and in the Note Dame
Organum have the famous composers well known are Leonin and Perotin
Leonin compose the organum and collection of many organum music for
the major event catholic cathedral the music base on the original chant
melodies but write for 2 voices call organum duplum Leonin use the
alternates musicals styles between organum and distant styles the organum
style in long notes of tenor against many notes in the duplum voice and use
when the original chant is mostly syllabic and Discant style in the 1-3 notes
of duplum part are for the evert tenor single note and use when chant itself
is more melisma technique and in the later Discant style become to use the
rhythmic modes the Rhythmic modes is become more complex of
polyphony in this system for indicate how voices singing together need to
do in the rhythmic modes have the 6 patterns of rhythmic combinations of
long and shorts notes in the moment we can counting and tapping the beat
easily and the later Perotin Continue the musical development style of
Leonin but he expanded his ideas he write organum for 3 voices call
“organum triplum” and 4 voices call organum quadruplum and he frequently
combined long notes of tenor notes with modal rhythms in the organum
parts and used the technique of voice exchange

3. Compare the secular and sacred musical styles of Guillaume de Machaut and
Guillaume du fay. How does Machaut’s Rose,liz, Printemps, verdure compare to du
Fay’s Resveilles vous et faites chiere lye? How does the Agnus Dei from Machaut’s
Mass compare to the Missa se la face ay pale by du Fay? Describe in detail how
Machaut’s secular and sacred musical styles are different from du Fay’s, and then
also discuss whether there are any stylistic similarities between them.

- The secular and sacred musical styles of Guillaume de Machaut are the
songs he wrote in ars nova style can see the style in his songs as virelai,
ballade, and rondeau in polyphonic are called fixed forms each form
features a set rhyme pattern and refrains and His secular music he wrote
the polyphony becomes more focus on the top voice called the cactus
instead of the tenor and later in the 1300s during this period often altered
notes chromatically from what was write in the score This called Musica
ficta for create a half step resolve at the cadence and avoid tritones and for
create are melodic lines in smooth ways and in the secular and sacred
musical styles of Guillaume du Fay are like the style of Guillaume de
Machaut but in his secular music when he wrote the songs he often used
fixed forms with treble-focused polyphony

In the song Rose, Liz Printemps, verdure of Guillaume de Machaut so hard

to find the melody line because are so many voice crossing to overlap the
upper top voices and hard to counting the beat of this song because so
many hemiola in this song he wrote the long note in duple and sub divine in
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triple but some time in duple and when compares to the Resveilles vous et
faites chiere lye are easily to hear the melodic line and simple to counting
the beat because he wrote the rhythmic in the simple ways and sometime in
this song sound like the baroque music

In the Agnus Dei from Guillaume de Machaut are used the isorhythmic for
compose this song Isorhythmic meaning to repeating the series of pitches
and repeating the rhythmic patterns that were combine in different ways
and used the Musica ficta in this song and sometime find the Double
leading tone cadence the leading tone cadence is a cadence in which two
notes are altered to create half-step resolutions when compare to the Missa
se la face ay pale from Guillaume du Fay are used the isorhythmic to the
same Agnus Dei from Guillaume de Machaut for compose this song and in
this song have Musica ficta too but in the example can’t see the double
leading tone cadence and both song so easily counting on the beat also

In the example I have the secular musical styles from Guillaume de

Machaut and Guillaume du Fay are different in the rhythmic ways in the
Guillaume de Machaut alternate the time signature to the 3/4 and 6/8 and
don’t no can use which the time signature in the bar lines but for the
Guillaume du Fay still can counting the beat on time signature 6/8 in the
steady beat and the melodic lines from Guillaume du Fay so easy to
listening because are don’t have the voice crossing or overlap and in my
opinion the sacred musical styles of the both are Guillaume de Machaut and
Guillaume du Fay are almost have the same styles similars It barely to
describe the different styles between them