![]() ![]() The period’s obsession with antiquity, in particular the Greeks, lead some to experiment with a form of musical theatre, where it voice told a story accompanied by instruments, essentially trying to replicate Greek Drama. ![]() Palestrina eventually developed a free flowing style of counterpoint from these, allowing both clarity and musical interest. There were also increasing passages of homophony (multiple voices moving in a similar rhythm) for passages of particular importance. ![]() They abandoned the intermingling of several voices in the canon style of Ockehem in favor of imitation of duets and trios that would build in texture to five or six sections. Essentially, the decision had been reached that the polyphonic music at the time made the lyrics, the divine sacred texts, incomprehensible. The move towards a clearer style came in part due to the Counter Reformation and the Council of Trent. With this came an increase of simplification particular with G.P. This also meant that the local element, as with the standardizing of the mass by the church in 1011, was surpassed by a growing internationalism, specifically the Franco-Flemish style of polyphony. Musical notation started to take form, allowing the idea of transmitting music and having it reproduced more faithfully. In the 1470s the first impact of the printing press was felt in music. Both provided many new compositional techniques, the most vital being modal rhythm, essentially irregular notes arranged in a regular pattern. These were later developed by two of the earliest known composers, first by Léonin and later Pérotin. Although the Florid Organum of St Martial was the most significant on later organum, giving way to the famous Notre Dame School, the English organum favored the interval of the third, which would become the path through which modal music would lead to major/minor tonality, but more on that later. Once again different centers experimented in different approaches to organum, perhaps the most significant was the English. Gradually more lines were introduced to the music, moving through Organum. With this standardization developments started to occur. Here again listen to the “Gloria” but done as Gregorian chant. This came to replace almost all local forms of chant. The result was Gregorian chant, derived from mixing the chant styles of the two main European centers Rome, the center of the church, and Paris, the political center. This began to change with the standardization of the mass and chant by the Catholic Church in 1011 A.D. ![]()
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