Music Wise

1. Stuff done this week Found a good book on the history of music by W. Steffelaar (2007). I made notes on both this text and Burkholder et al. (2014). 2. Listening done this week I listened to some examples of Anglo Saxon chant again. Now that I have read some chapters on Medieval Music, I would like to verify if I can identify the style elements I read about in these examples. Chant in Honour of Anglo Saxon Saints by the Magnificat ensemble , responsorial and antiphonal chant, chant over a period ranging from 6th to 11th century. These chants are from before the advent of Ars Antiqua (1150) .The chants are all performed in monophony, all voices - male and female - sing the same melody. This is in accordance with how we believe the music would have been performed, though the mix of male and female voices would have been unusual in Medieval times. The songs are in plagal mode, the melodies ascending and descending around the dominant in small intervallic steps. ...