Music 251 Medieval and Renaissance Music from Notation to Performance

Fall term 1993-4



class meetings: 12:30-1:20 WThF, room 112 Woolworth Building

instructor: Prof. Peter Jeffery
214 Woolworth Building, telephone 8-4237
office hours WTh afternoons and by appointment

description: This is a "hands-on" introduction to European music from ca. 900 to ca. 1550 A.D., approaching the material through Medieval and Renaissance techniques of musical training. Students who complete the course successfully will have gained: (1) first-hand experience learning some representative pieces of medieval and Renaissance music, (2) the ability to sightread directly from medieval and Renaissance music notation, (3) the ability to improvise harmonies according to medieval principles, (4) the know-how to add interpretive features in authentic period style even though they are not written in the music, (5) improved ability to use one's voice well, (6) an understanding of the issues involved in preparing modern editions and performances of this music, (7) experience with the issues involved in confronting the musics of other cultures.

prerequisites: MU 106 or permission of instructor. Students should be able to sight-sing from standard modern music notation. Prior familiarity with Latin or French, medieval literature or history, religion, or anthropology is not expected, but will be a plus.

requirements:
attendance and participation 20%
4 oral assignments 20%
4 written assignments 20%
midterm 20%
final 20%
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total 100%

textbooks:
(1) Graduale Triplex (Solesmes 1979).
(2) EugÜne Cardine, Beginning Studies in Gregorian Chant , ed. William Tortolano (Chicago: G.I.A. Publications, 1988).
(3) George Houle, ed., Ockeghem's Missa cuiusvis toni (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992).
(4) pamphlets provided by the instructor: "A Modern Agnostic's Guide to the Medieval Latin Liturgy" and "Handbook for Medieval Choirboy Wannabees"

There will also be many reading and listening assignments from material on reserve, see attached list.

Reserve readings:

A. in the Reserve Room in Firestone Library, A floor

St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica , transl. by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, 3 vols. (New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947-8. [6049 .89 .331 .6 .11]

Warren Babb, et al., eds., Hucbald, Guido and John on Music (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978) [ML170 .H82]

Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius, Fundamentals of Music , transl. Calvin M. Bower, ed. Claude V. Palisca (New Haven: Yale, 1989) [MT 5.5 .B613 1989]

Angel Flores, An Anthology of Medieval Lyrics (New York: Modern Library, 1962) pp. 104-5, 168, 303-5

Franchino Gaffurio, The Theory of Music transl. Walter Kreyszig, ed. Claude V. Palisca (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993). [MT5.5 G2613 1993]

Richard H. Hoppin, Medieval Music (New York: W. W. Norton, 1978) [ML172 .H6]

Jay A. Huff, ed., Ad Organum Faciendum & Item de Organo , Musical Theorists in Translation 8 (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Institute of Mediaeval Music, n.d. [ca. 1970]). [ML174 .A1q]

Thomas Morley, A Plain and Easy Introduction to Practical Music , ed. Alec R. Harman (New York: Norton 1973). [MT7 M82. 1973]

Andreas Ornithoparchus and John Dowland, A Compendium of Musical Practice: Musice active micrologus by Andreas Ornithoparchus; Andreas Ornithoparchus His Micrologus, or Introduction, Containing the Art of Singing, by John Dowland , ed. Gustave Reese and Steven Ledbetter, American Musicological Society-Music Library Association Reprint Series (New York: Dover Publications, 1973). [MT6 .07 1973]

Michael Praetorius, Syntagma Musicum II: De Organographia , parts 1-2, transl. David Z. Crookes (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986). [ML467. P7 1986]

Richard Rastall, The Notation of Western Music (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982). [ML431. R27 1983]

Gaspar Stoquerus, De musica verbali libri duo: Two Books on Verbal Music , ed. Albert C. Rotola (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1988). [MT 5.5. S7613 1988]

Oliver Strunk, Source Readings in Music History (New York: Norton, 1950). [ML160 .S92]

Willard R. Trask, Medieval Lyrics of Europe (New York and Cleveland: World Publishing Co., 1969) pp. 34, 36, 43-44, 59-60, 94, 118

Piero Weiss and Richard Taruskin, Music in the Western World: A History in Documents (New York: Schirmer Books, 1984) pp. 55-8,
[ML 160. M865 1984]

B. in the music section of Firestone (SV), C floor

The Liber Usualis with Introduction and Rubrics in English (Tournai: DesclÝe, 1963). [M2148 . 1. L42 (SV)]

C. in the Record Library in the Woolworth building

Howell Chickering and Margaret Switten, eds., The Medieval Lyric: A Project Supported by The National Endowment for the Humanities and Mount Holyoke College , rev. ed., 4 vols. and 5 cassettes (South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College, 1987-9). [SVL M1619. M434 1988]

Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, ed., Machaut's Mass: An Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) pp. 183-212. [ML 410. G87 L3 1990]

Claude V. Palisca, Norton Anthology of Western Music 1: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque (New York: W.W. Norton, 1980). [SV M1. N825]

Jeremy Yudkin, Music in Medieval Europe (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1989) [ML 171. Y8 1989]

D. You may also wish to consult the following two items, which are in the Biology Library (SZ):

Robert Thayer Sataloff, M.D., Professional Voice: Science and Art of Clinical Care (New York: Raven Press, 1991). [Biology Library (SZ) RF510. S28 1991]

Robert Thayer Sataloff, Alice G. Brandfonbrener, Richard J. Lederman, Textbook of Performing Arts Medicine (New York: Raven Press, 1991). [Biology Library (SZ) RC965.P46 T48 1991]

Reserve recordings (in the Record Library in Woolworth):

1. "Office of Second Vespers, Nativity of Our Lord"
Score: Norton Anthology of Western Music (1980) pp. 16-28
Recording: accompanying records, side 2
2. "Mass of Septuagesima"
Score: Palisca, Norton Anthology of Western Music pp. 1-15.
Recording: accompanying records, side 1

3. "Proprium tertiae Missae in Nativitate"
Score: Graduale Triplex pp. 47-50.
Recording: Gregorianischer Choral: Die grossen Feste des Kirchenjahres , performed by the choir of Benediktinerabtei Mönsterschwarzach directed by P. Godehard Joppich, side 3 [LS 9670]

4. "Missa in festo Pentecostes"
Score: Graduale Triplex pp. 252 (introit), 824 (Gloria patri), 718-20 (Kyrie and Gloria), 800-1 (oratio), 804 (lectio), 252-5 (alleluias and sequence), 805-6 (evangelium), 779-81 (Credo), 255 (offertory), 809 (ante praefationem), 723-4 (Sanctus), 811-12 and 816 (Per ipsum, Pater noster, Pax Domini), 724 (Agnus), 256 (Communion), 817 (Benedictio).
Recording: Gregorian Chant: Missa in Festo Pentecostes (Archiv 3203, re-released as Archiv 198 303)

5. Aquitainian tropes
Score: Howell Chickering and Margaret Switten, eds., The Medieval Lyric: A Project Supported by The National Endowment for the Humanities and Mount Holyoke College , vol. 1
Recording: accompanying cassettes

6. didactic songs in Pythagorean intervals (tape hopefully supplied by instructor)

7-8. Parisian organum
Scores: in Jeremy Yudkin, "The New Music of Paris" in Music in Medieval Europe 357-81.
Recording: tape of accompanying examples

9. Guillaume de Machaut, "Remede de Fortune"
Score: Chickering and Switten vol. 2
Recording: accompanying cassette

10. Guillaume de Machaut, "Messe de Nostre Dame"
Score: Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, ed., Machaut's Mass: An Introduction (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990) 183-212.
Recording: Guillaume de Machaut, Messe de Nostre Dame , sung by the Taverner Consort and Taverner Choir, directed by Andrew Parrott, EMI 1435761

11. Johannes Ockeghem, "Missa cuiusvis toni"
Score: George Houle, Ockeghem's Missa cuiusvis toni (textbook)
Recording: Johannes Ockeghem, Missa cuiusvis toni, performed by Frankfurter Madrigal-Ensemble, dir. Siegfried Heinrich Jubilate JU 15 211 (LS 8018)