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Week 52 - SUMMARY: A Timeline of Medieval Music

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December 29, 2016

Below I present a summary of my notes on Western Music History. It was also one of my assignments for the OCA Music Foundation course. I hope this is of some use to you. A Timeline of Western Music - Medieval Period

Week 7: Madrigals and secular songs in the 16th century

March 20, 2017

1. Stuff done this week - Read chapter 11 from Burkholder et al. (2014); my notes are presented below. - Practicing the Temperance Reel, an Irish tune my mandolin teacher gave as homework. - Me and the band recorded the song "Cold Black Ground" written by Dikkie; I play some harmonica and sung some backing vocals. We are rather proud of the result. Hope people will like it. At the moment it is being mixed. 2. Listening done Listened to the work of John Dowland (1563-1626) and songs by Miranda Sex Garden a music group from London, England. They formed in 1990 as a trio of madrigal singers. Their first album, Madra (1991), was sung a cappella, with the songs all based on traditional English verse. I bought their third album Sunshine (1993) in the early nineties. Their music had become more experimental and complex. Now, studying Renaissance music, it is fascinating to re-listen and observe how madrigals are still a very relevan...

Week 6: Sacred Music during the 16th century (Reformation)

February 13, 2017

1. Stuff done this week - Reading Burkholder et al. (2014) and Steffelaar (2007); notes are published below. 2. Listening done this week I always loved this beautiful composition "Audivi Vocem" set for four voices by Thomas Tallis (ca. 1505-1585) . This rendition is performed a capella by the Taverner Consort. The piece is a sacred motet with a Latin text derived from Jeremiah 40:10 and Matthew 25:6: Audivi vocem de caelo venientem: venite omnes virgines sapientissime; oleum recondite in vasis vestris dum sponsus advenerit. Media nocte clamor factus est: ecce sponsus venit. I heard a voice coming from heaven: come all wisest virgins; fill your vessels with oil, for the bridegroom is coming. In the middle of the night there was a cry: behold the bridegroom comes. What puzzles me in this rendition is the use of imitative counterpoint in some passages, which is then alternated with melismatic plainchant. I wo...

Week 4: Writing out The Huckleberry Hornpipe by Byron Berline

February 06, 2017

1. Stuff done this week - Read up on music theory in the OCA Music Foundations course. - Feeling more confident I asked for an assignment from my mandolin teacher Thijs Rührup . This week, he challenged me to write out a piece of music played to me. I recorded his version of Byron Berline's Huckleberry Hornpipe , a texas swing fiddle piece in the key of A, which also sounds great on the mandolin. The tune, in 4/4 time, features three melody sections A, B and C of 8 bars that are played twice, each with another ending. The exercise provided me with another opportunity to practice some more with Sibelius and to also train my musical hearing. I did not include the slides; I still don't know how to note them down in Sibelius. Discussing this piece with my mandolin teacher, I learned I made some mistakes in my use of accidentals. For instance in bar 6, there is an ascending triplet. I used a moll sign on the last note, writing an Eb.This should have been a D#. Sounds the s...

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