medieval
Boy is there a lot I don't know about this stuff.
Here is a pretty cool explication of alleged rules teased out by near contemporaries.
Here is more of a history of the music.
There are or have been some great youtube playlists that take you through historical scores but they tend to get taken down. Er, like the one I just checked. Sigh.
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Here are some links for the medieval listening assignment . . .they work as of 03/19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi5CZ3lTXP8&t=19s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgHzH5iDcGQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qah3eUXBuo&t=445s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e55kHFBPk4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8BPVABzN4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro2JTnfmjzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJbgL80-Hq0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdol8PviWKw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu7-RV7XB9k
(Machaut! Yay!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1INszJsEPQ
(secular Machaut! Yay!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeLb3zbqNLg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMaUOL4e14M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dYAEpf-A-A
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQjdEbZH2wI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mcxEtyEUw4
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9yzTTwAj5U
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Some other odds and ends --
[Is it wrong that I'm in love with this?]
some other pieces that are worth downloading scores of:
Machaut Notre Dame Mass, Sanctus (sorry for the annoying video)
Perotin Sederunt Principes
For an explanation of prolation . . .
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