A Comprehensive Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Music: Forms, Techniques, and Styles

Medieval Music

Duplum, Triplum, Quadruplum

A two-voice organum was called an organum duplum, a three-voice organum is triplum, and a four-voice is quadruplum. Voices above tenor were likewise named in ascending order: duplum, triplum, and quadruplum. Preotinus used organa for three or four voices.

Medieval Motet

13th Century- polyphonic with tenor vocal work using text from an existing discant clausula. It is in Latin or French, sacred or secular text. Tenor melodies are from chant or other melodies.

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Figures of Speech and Poetic License in Literature

To Reduce Syllables Per Line

Aphesis

Omission of the initial part of a word or phrase (It is à ’tis).

Syncope

Omission of one or more sounds, letters, or syllables from the middle of a word (ever à e’er).

Apocope

Omission of the last letter or syllable at the end of a word (often à oft).

Elision Plus Contraction (Slurring of a Syllable)

There is à there’s.

To Increase Syllables Per Line

Addition of a Stressed Syllable

Past tense: -éd (clothed à clothéd).

Word Formation

By using prefixes (-a, -en)

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Folklorism and Nationalism in 20th-Century Music

Folklorism

Those who write in German from the 1960s to 1980s on Eurocentrism are influenced by what we found in the theories. The studies are from the point of view of the Germans, not Europe. Folklore is a societal interest in popular and traditional culture. There are two types of listeners:

  • Assets: Retrieves the folkloric to incorporate into a work
  • Liabilities: The listener hears and supports. He identifies with music that he has not heard before.
  1. Ideas, attitudes, and values included under the basic
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Maurice Ravel and Erik Satie: A Comparative Study of Two Musical Pioneers

Ravel 1875-1937


As a person and as a musician does not look or Debussy or Satie. He had studied music.
Sign in with Faure Conservatory and study. Early works with the personality of composer and marcados.Fauré, to the failures of the Grand Prix in Rome that I can not win, increasing his popularity, and causing a scandal that puts Fauré as director of the conservatory. It is grouped with anyone. Lives of the classes and their compositions exclusively, has no bohemian attitude, posture should be

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Literary Movements in the 18th and 19th Centuries: Prose, Poetry, and Realism

Theme: Prose, Drama, and Poetry in the Eighteenth Century

1.2) Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos

The accession of Charles IV assumed the postegracion Jovellanos who was exiled to his hometown. In 1802 he was imprisoned in Majorca in the Bellver Castle.

Jovellanos’s Prose

Most of the prose of Jovellanos is essays on the reform of various aspects of a memory company. A company on entertainment studying public history of various games or performances.

3) The Eighteenth-Century Poetry

Poetry until 1750, is modeled

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19th Century Literature and Society

Literature of the Nineteenth Century

The Nineteenth Century: Romanticism, Realism, and Naturalism

During the first half of the nineteenth century, Romanticism developed. This current, dating back to the late eighteenth century in Germany and England, spread to Europe and America. Romanticism is not just an artistic movement, but a wider movement that exalts feelings and affects all spheres of life: cultural, political, and societal. The Romantics, critical of societal values in both social and political

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