Early Music Sources

Return to: MUSC 726A

Selected Topics (in course order)

1. Gregorian chant {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
2. Modes in the 16th and 17th centuries {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
3. Cadences in the 16th and 17th centuries {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• Cadenza doppia and five cool things you can do with it! {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
4. Musica ficta {YouTube; Footnotes}
5. See also:
   
• Durum and Molle / Hard and soft in the music of the Renaissance {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• The Hexachord System
• Early Word Painting {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• False relations in the late Renaissance {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
• Solmization and the Guidonian hand in the 16th century {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
  

1. Basso continuo {YouTube Playlist}
• Early Basso Continuo ca. 1600-1650 {YouTube}
• Italian Basso Continuo 1650-1700 {YouTube}
2. Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
3. Notation {YouTube Playlist}
• Mensural notation: the basics {YouTube}
• Musica ficta {YouTube}
  
4. Performance Practice {YouTube Playlist}
   
5. Tuning {YouTube Playlist}

1. Species Counterpoint
• The most famous Counterpoint treatise in history: Gradus ad Parnassum (1725) {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
• FUX, Missa vicissitudinis, Kyrie, from Gradus (1725) {SF: YouTube}
  
2. Canon
• The Magic Table That Lets You Compose Canons Over a Cantus Firmus {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
3. Improvisation & Diminution
• Improvisation around 1600 {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
• The art of diminution in the 16th century {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
• How to improvise polyphony in four voices according to Santa María {YouTube}
• Tutorial: Acciaccature & Mordenti according to Gasparini {YouTube}
• Cantare super librum {YouTube}
4. Partimento Tradition
   
• Partimento - Training the Maestri {YouTube}
• The Rule of the Octave {YouTube}
5. Rhetorical Figures
• Joachim Burmeister and his musical rhetorical figures {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
• Orlando di Lasso, In me transierunt {SF: YouTube}
• Joseph Riepel and the Secrets of Galant Melody {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
  
6. Score Analysis
• #1 Cipriano de Rore / Amor ben mi credevo {YouTube}
• #2 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Hexachord Fantasia {YouTube}
• #3 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck / Ricercar del nono tono {YouTube}
• #4 Unsatisfyingly sweet: Josquin's Mille Regretz {YouTube}
• #5 William Byrd / Hugh Ashton's ground [Tregian’s ground] {YouTube}

Link

Rotem, Early Music Sources  – https://www.earlymusicsources.com