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Notations of Early Polyphony

Notations of Early Polyphony. Dasian Notation Modal Notation. Dasia Notation. Dasia Notation. Dasia Notation. Sources: Musica Enchiriadis and Scolia Enchiriadis , anon., s. 9 ex., N. Fr.

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Notations of Early Polyphony

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  1. Notations of Early Polyphony Dasian Notation Modal Notation

  2. Dasia Notation

  3. Dasia Notation

  4. Dasia Notation • Sources: Musica Enchiriadis and Scolia Enchiriadis, anon., s. 9 ex., N. Fr. • importance treatises for the early history of modal theory and of polyphony in the intellectual environment of the Carolingian Renaissance • containing the earliest discussions of polyphonic singing (organum) and its notation, citing many late Latin literary and philosophical sources.

  5. Dasia Notation • Three kinds of organum • octave • fifth • + octave doubling, choral • + mixture stop on the organ • fourth • avoid tritones – diabolus in musica! • “artifical” polyphony: parts independent • solistic

  6. Dasia Notation

  7. Dasia Notation

  8. Ex. “Rex celi Domine”

  9. Ex. “Rex celi Domine”

  10. Modal Notation

  11. Modal Notation • Notre Dame School/Epoch, s. 12 m.–s. 13 m. • Leonin: optimus organista • Perotin: optimus discantor • Magnus liber organi de gradali et antiphonario • Sources: W1, F, W2

  12. Perotin, Organum triplum “Alleluia Nativitas” W2=WolfenbüttelHerzog August Bibliothek, Codex Guelf. 1099 Helmst., fol. 16r (s. 13 ex.)

  13. Ex. Early polyphonic elaborations on Alleluia. Pascha nostrum Modal Notation

  14. Alleluia. Pascha nostrum

  15. Alleluia. Pascha nostrum

  16. tenaria ambiguous: LBL, BLB, BBL, LLL, BBB? Modal Notation (L=longa, B=brevis)

  17. Perotin, 4-part clausula “Mors,” W1=Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 628 Helmst., fol. 4v. (s. 13 m.)

  18. Organum,Rome, Biblio. Apost. Vat., Fondo Ottoboniano Lat. 3025, f. 49

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