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two hours of relaxing, soothing and inspiring choral music from the great masters of the golden age of polyphony.
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- Angels Whispers
Feb 22, 2018 · The disc's title refers to Mary and her son, the Christ, which is the general theme of the medieval chant, polyphony and poetry that forms this program. The selections are ordered around three...
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- Vale Traditionalist
In the third installment of Poetry Out Loud's Lesson Plans, Molly Rice (She/Her), Director and Educator, gives a lesson on choral readings and poetry pairs.
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- Winchester Troper, Verset: Pascha Nostrum – Unknown
- Sederunt Principes, Pérotin
- Sicut Cervus, G.P. Palestrina
- Sumer Is Icumen In, Reading Abbey
- Fugue in G Minor, BWV 578, J.S. Bach
- Once in Royal David’s City, Kings College Choir & Sir Stephen Cleobury
- When The Saints Go Marching In, The New Orleans Jazz Band
- The Lion Sleeps Tonight, The Lion King
- Recuerdos de La Alhambra, Francisco Tárrega
- Scarborough Fair, Simon & Garfunkel
The Winchester Troper provides a window of insight into music in the Winchester Cathedral in the 10th and 11th centuries. It is said to be authored by the cantor of the cathedral, and importantly, it contains the largest collection of 11th-century polyphony ever discovered. The type of polyphony it contains is called “organum” and is a type of greg...
The art of composing organa would grow in the 12th and 13th centuries in the Notre Dame school under the influence of Léonin and Pérotin. Now, third and fourth voice parts enhance the pre-existing chant melody. Sederunt Principes by Pérotin is an example of organa quadruplum, as it is written for four voice parts. What is interesting is that the ch...
By the time of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina in the 16th century, the art of writing counterpointhas developed to an excellent degree. Great renaissance composerslike Guillaume Du Fay and Josquin des Prez have made lasting contributions, and Palestrina’s music is representative of European polyphony perfected in the Renaissance era. In Sicut Cer...
This song dates back to the middle of the 13th century and was discovered on a manuscript at Reading Abbey, England. Its composer may be W. de Wycombe but it’s not known for sure. It is called the Reading Rota; “rota” being another term for the word “round.” A round is a type of canon, in which every voice follows the first. So, yes, every canon an...
Like canons and rounds, fuguesare polyphonic in texture. Fugues are based on imitative counterpoint and flourished in the Baroque era(17th-18th century). In a fugue, many imitative parts sound at once as a harmonic whole. J.S. Bach is widely regarded as the preeminent composer of fugues, and his compositions display a staggering amount of variety a...
Hymns are generally homophonic in texture: you have a main melody sung by the sopranos, and the other voices supplying harmony notes. However, composers occasionally write a counter-melody above the soprano part for even greater variety. Because the human ear likes to pick out the highest voice, you tend to hear the new tune sung by the “descant” p...
In the early 20th century, the “Dixieland” style of Jazz emerged out of a blend of several music styles including blues, ragtime, and band marches. The frontline instruments, generally the trumpet, clarinet, and trombone, improvise melodies simultaneously imprinting on the music a rich polyphonic texture. In the video, right from the get-go, you’ll...
This fun song is in 2-part polyphony. You have the “wimoweh” bass which starts the song and later serves as the harmonic basis for the melody that contains the English lyrics. The English texts were penned by George David Weiss, while the song was originally composed as “Mbube” in Zulu by Solomon Linda. The lion sleeps tonight has been recorded by ...
Like keyboard instruments, the guitar supports music that has a polyphonic texture. This is especially true for fingerstyle and classical guitar. Consider Recuerdos de la Alhambra by Francisco Tárrega, for instance. The masterpiece can essentially be broken down into an arpeggiated voice upon which a tremolo part is superimposed. The arpeggio has a...
Plenty of musicians like Mark Knopfler and John Mayer use the guitar as an independent voice that compliments their lead vocal part. Simon & Garfunkel’s arrangement of Scarborough fair starts in this fashion. Once the main voice enters you have a polyphonic texture. However, Simon & Garfunkel add a bit more “spice” by adding another independent voi...
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Nov 9, 2020 · Joseph Jordania has outlined nine different types of polyphonic singing in his book Choral singing in human evolution. I will be working through each type trying to give a simplified explanation and some musical examples. This week it’s heterophonic polyphony.
Oct 21, 2021 · The motet represents one of the earliest forms of polyphonic choral composition in Western music. From the Medieval motet of the Middle Ages to avant-garde contemporary motets, the form has been a hallmark of classical music.
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Sep 28, 2020 · There are many different forms of polyphony and Jordania divides them into nine different types. Over the next few weeks I will try to find examples of each different type and maybe introduce you to some new vocal traditions on the way.
