Music in the Middle Ages

Syllabus
Speculum Musicae: The Mirror of Music
IDST-1300-09 (Focus: Fine Arts)

			Instructor: Dr. Lynn Raley raleyhl@millsaps.edu Phone: Ext. 1423 Meeting time: TuTh 2:45 pm Location: AC 152

UNIT 1

The Speculative Case for the Cosmic B-flat -- NY Times (1/30/04) (shades of Pythagoras!)
The Mass [pdf]
Hours of the Divine Office [pdf]
The Monastic Ideal [pdf]
Hildegard's Ordo Virtutum ("The Order of the Virtues") - text for "In Principio Omnes" [pdf]
Your instructions for composing a plainchant [pdf]
Staff paper (print out to use - 4 lines to a staff, Medieval style) [pdf]
Primary Source quotes: early polyphony [pdf]

UNIT 2

A Summons to Charlemagne's Army [pdf]
An Arab Opinion of the Crusaders [pdf]
Courtly Life [pdf]
2 Troubadour song texts (A chantar, by the trobairitz Beatriz de Dia and Can vei lauzeter, by troubadour Bernart da Ventadorn) [pdf]
Texts to Qawwali music -- Sufi music heard in class (Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan) [pdf]
Troubadours and Trouvères
"Song of Roland" [complete! - an online link]
The Crusades
The Arabic maqamat and iqa'at (pitch modes and rhythmic cycles): interactive
Medieval (European) Instruments : interactive
ARABIC MUSIC:
Arabic Music Overview
Instruments used in Arabic music: interactive
the European lute came from the Arabic 'oud -- [also spelled 'ud]
the European psaltery came from the Arabic qan'un
the rebec is a small violin-like string instrument [also called rabab]
percussion (our tambourine came from the Arabic riqq
- Arabic percussion: tar | riqq | dumbek, also called darrbuka or tablah)
- also seen and heard on video: the nay, a reed flute
- you will heard and see a mijwiz on a video performance [using "circular" breathing!]