chapter five
MUSIC

TimothyJ.McGee

Musical Performance … 215
Music in Private and Public … 218
Musical Instruments … 219
Plainsong and the Monophonic Tradition … 223
Additions to the Sacred Repertory … 226
The Monophonic Secular Tradition … 228
Religious Music of the Layman … 232
The Earliest Polyphonic Music … 234
Motets and Canons … 235
Polyphonic Secular Music and National Styles … 238
Dufay and the Late Medieval Ceremonial Motet … 242
Guillaume de Machaut's Messe de Nostre Dame … 243
The Cyclic Mass Tradition: Missa Caput … 244
Missa Se la face ay pale … 245
The Mechanics of Music: Scales and Treatises … 245
Systems of Notation … 249

Adam de la Halle … 251
Bernart de Ventadorn … 251
Guillaume Dufay … 251
Guido of Arezzo … 252
Hildegard of Bingen … 252
Francesco Landini … 252
Guillaume de Machaut … 253
Notker Balbulus … 253
Pietrobono de Burzellis … 254
Philippe de Vitry … 254
Walther von der Vogelweide … 254

SIDEBARS AND PRIMARY DOCUMENTS
Primary sources are listed in italics
Medieval Musical Terms … 216
Instruments at a Minstrel Performance (excerpt from Remede de Fortune naming several musical instruments) … 219
Music Sources for Medieval Instrumental Performance … 223
Singing of Psalms (application of a musical formula to Psalm 125, "In convertendo Dominus") … 224
An Example of a Responsory (example of this elaborate chant form) … 225
Lines from a Sacred Play (excerpt from one version of the sacred play reenacting Christ's Resurrection) … 227
An Easter Introit (example of an antiphon with trope lines) … 228
A Troubadour Song (music and lyrics for "Lancan vei la folha") … 230
A Cantiga to the Virgin Mary (a song from the Spanish collection known as the Songs of Holy Mary) … 233
A Musical Puzzle (an example of a puzzle canon in "Agnus dei" from Missa L'Homme armé) … 236
Structure of Medieval Song Forms … 240
An Example of Musical Borrowing (a secular song provides the basis for a mass) … 246
Medieval Modes … 248