THEORY TO 1750
FALL 2011

 

 
MIDTERM

Compose or find an original chant - Have it approved -

With the chant compose:

Style to emulate

Directions

Example in the Textbook

  1. Parallel organum in fifths

 

47

  1. Free note against note organum

 

48

  1. Melismatic organum

possibly only a section of the chant

49

  1. Notre Dame organum

possibly only a section of the chant

50

  1. Discant

possibly only a section of the chant

50-51

  1. Petronian Motet

More or less the equivalent of the first 16 measures of the textbook example on page 55

55-58

  1. Machaut motet - Imitate Bone Pastor

Possibly a 12 note color and a 6 note talea.

Mark the beginning of each color and talea

69-75

  1. Dunstable

Paraphrase the chant in the upper part

89-90

  1. Dufay -

4 part in the same style as either the first or last section of the Agnus Dei - Indicate which one you choose. You may use a portion of one of these secular "tunes" as the tenor.

  1. “ a recent popular song”

  2. Giraut d'Espanha de Toloza Dansa

  3. Moniot d'Arras Ce fu en mai

  4. Perrin d' Angicourt Quant voi le felon

  5. Walther von der Vogelweide Waz wunders

103-111

General guidelines:

  1. Make sure that you use the correct intervallic structures for the time period
  2. End each example with a typical cadence of the period

 

 

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