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A. Village
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An instrumental piece from the Glogauer Liederbuch (songbook)
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B. Grove
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"Summer is Icumen In", an anonymous toe tapper, from circa 1310
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Filename: icumen.mid
Source: http://midiworld.com/cmc/renaissa.html (as per M-L.Q)
Seq.Author: Curtis Clark
Comment: "Sumer is icumen in". Traditional, © 1995 by Curtis Clark, free for personal use; "jcclark@csupomona.edu", "http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/".
Notes: see: example of sheet music from Vladislav.
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" flirbnic "
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Filename: icumen2.mid
Source: The Classical MIDI Connection at http://midiworld.com/cmc/renaissa.html
Seq.Author: Curtis Clark
Comment: "Sumer is icumen in". Traditional, © 1995 by Curtis Clark, free for personal use;.
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" Mary-Lou "
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C. University
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Based on a Salterello, a hot new 14th century jumping dance
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Filename: Saltarello (14th. century) ("salt.mid")
Source: http://midiworld.com/earlymus.htm (14th not 13th)
Seq.Author: By Júlio Feliz
Comment: Saltarello, anonymous (14 Century C.E.)
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" Francis "
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Filename: Darklands-University--Saltarello2.midi ("saltell.mid")
Source: http://sca.uwaterloo.ca/~del/ddb/music/sca/index.htm
Seq.Author: By Unknown
Comment: Saltarello, anonymous; Saltarello La Regina (single line).
Alt.Source: Get WAVe versions on the Grendel Music Archive at http://csis.pace.edu/grendel/music/saltarello1.htm.
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" Kneem "
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D. Marketplace
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Based on an anonymous 3-part motet
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E. Inn 1
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Lute arrangement of a 15th century Madrigal
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F. Inn 2
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"Mit ganczem Willem" by Conrad Paumann(1410-73), circa 1452
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Filename: Mit_Ganczem_Willen.mid (aka paumann.mid)
Source: The Classic MIDI Archives at http://www.prs.net/early.html
Seq.Author: David Cooke
Comment: "Mit ganczem Willen" by Conrad Paumann, 1452; public domain file sequenced by David Cooke.
Alt.Source: Sredniowieczna Muzyka (as per MLW)
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" flirbnic "
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Filename: PAUMANN.MID
Source: "Machiavelli, The Prince" by Holistic-Design for Microprose. See the Merchant Prince web-page, and a Games Domain Review.
Seq.Author: Unknown (credits:
Prog.dev. by Rob Lefebvre of Holistic-Design;
Sampl.dev.(&seq.?) by The Fat Man, and Kevin Phelan & George Alistair Sanger of Team Fat, Big Fat Inc., ©1993.)
Comment: (file contains no internal text); ("Inn at Night", M-L.Q)
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" Mary-Lou "
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G. Craft District
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Based on an anonymous troubador tune
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H. Big Victory
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Based on "Reis glorios", by Guiraut de Bornelh, circa 1220
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Filename: alba.mid
Source: http://midiworld.com/earlymus.htm
Seq.Author: David Cooke
Comment: 'Reis glorios, verais lums e clartatz..' the Alba of Guiraut de Borneil. Public domain sequence by David Cooke.
Notes: see: example of sheet music from Vladislav.
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" flirbnic "
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I. Camping
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Based on "Reis glorios", by Guiraut de Bornelh, circa 1220
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Filename: alba.mid
Source: http://midiworld.com/earlymus.htm
Seq.Author: David Cooke
Comment: 'Reis glorios, verais lums e clartatz..' the Alba of Guiraut de Borneil. Public domain sequence by David Cooke.
Notes: see: example of sheet music from Vladislav.
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" flirbnic "
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J. Travel 1
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Based on an anonymous medieval isorythmic motet
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K. Travel 2
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Based on "L'homme Arme" (The Armed Man), by Guillaume Dufay
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Filename: lhomme.mid
Source: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/vladislav/filk/
Seq.Author: Laura McKinstry
Comment: File text: (no text);
Notes: tempo is slow; see: sheet music from Vladislav.
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" mwirkk "
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L. Religious
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"Veni Creator Spiritus", a Gregorian Chant by Heinrich Finck
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Filename: venicrea.mid
Source: http://tch.simplenet.com/htm/c/comeholy.htm
Seq.Author: "Unnamed(?)"
Comment: File text: Veni Creator, By Vesperale Romanum, 1848, Public domain, Generated by NoteWorthy Composer, Unnamed-000, Unnamed-001;
Filename2: vencreat.mid
Source2: (same)
Seq.Author2: "Staff(?)"
Comment2: File text: Veni Creator (Dykes), By John Bacchus Dykes, 1875, Public domain, Generated by NoteWorthy Composer, Staff 1, Veni Creator (Dykes);
Notes: These sequences are from compositions much later than *Fink*, and are much faster in tempo and higher in pitch than the Darklands version.
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" mwirkk "
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M. Shell game
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Based on an anonymous medieval caccia (round)
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N. Grove at night
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Original Lute improvisation
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O. Fortress
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Based on an anonymous medieval isorythmic motet
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P. Town Square
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Based on an anonymous medieval isorythmic motet
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Q. Lament
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"Tristan's Lament", from 14th century Italy
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Filename: Lamento di Tristana (lamntris.mid)
Source: http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/
Seq.Author: Curtis Clark
Comment: Lamento de Tristana, Anon. 14th C., © 1996 by Curtis Clark. Free for personal use, jcclark@csupomona.edu, http://www.csupomona.edu/~jcclark/emusic/;
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" mwirkk "
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R. Dungeon
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Based on an old motet by Guillaume Dufay
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MORE MUSIC...
- † More of the same, but different...
- "Sumer is icumen in":
- Saltarello:
- "Mit ganzcem Willem":
- "Reis Glorios":
- "L'homme Arme":
- "Veni Creator Spiritus":
- -MLW
MORE INFO...
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Giraut de Bornelh's "Reis glorios"
- A translation of lyrics for Giraut de Bornelh's (c. 1165-1210) "Reis glorios" ("Glorious king"),
by Auburn University English Professor Craig E. Bertolet from Provincial French to modern English
can be found at http://www.auburn.edu/~bertocr/Reis.html.
Note that this site is intended for classroom use and may dissappear at any time!
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Gregorian Chant "Veni Creator Spiritus" – a multitude of sites with info about:
- Clavis Regni, the on-line magazine for St. Peter's Church in Nottingham, has an article by Nigel Day
with historical background info on the hymn and song, "Veni Creator Spiritus, Mentes tuorum visita".
- The New Advent's Catholic Encyclopedia also has an article on the "Venti Creator Spiritus".
- The Classical Music Dictionary notes the work of English composer John Dunstable (1400–1474/1390–1453),
including "His motet Veni Sancte Spiritus - Veni Creator Spiritus, using the technique of isorhythm,
with the application of a recurrent rhythmic pattern to a given series of notes..."
- The controversial site "True Catholic" has a translation – Latin to English.
- ... as well as a variety of other "Venti Creator Spiritus" translationals and interpretations around the Web:
by John Dryden, from University of Toronto Library;
from Thesaurus Precum Latinarum;
from Saint Joseph Software;
and from Domestic-Church-dot-Com;
another from The Handbook to the Lutheran Hymnal;
the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn-Book;
and the St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church web-site.
- ... and Venti Creator scores:
from Jubilaeum's Musica Sacra,/a>;
and a Piano Sonata No.7;
- Richard Lee, Assoc. Prof. of Philosophy at the Univ. Of Arkansas, has a very good list of Gregorian Chant links.
- Those persons wishing to pursue further reading about music in Germany during the 15th century might be interested in
the Seminar in Renaissance Music, Fall 1997, at the University of Southern California.
- ... And, Conrad Leviston's page on German Tabulature.
- Sheet music for a version of a Saltarello (by Vincente Galilei) can be found in tabulature form
at the Acoustic Classical Guitar Tabulatures web-site.
- Examples of music-related manuscripts of this period from the Vatican's collection
can be seen on the Music Hall's
Room 2
and Room 3 pages.
- Those interested in the subject of "Early" Music (Medieval, High Middle-Age to Early Renaissance) might start with
the Medieval
and Renaissance Music Links from the Carolina Culture Connection site,
as well as the Early Music FAQ.
- For an extensive listing of composers, manuscripts, and repertoire in the 14th century,
try the Music of the Fourteenth Century database project.
- The SCA Minstrel's page and the SCA Music pages have excellent collections of links on related topics.
- Martin Luther began bringing reforms to church music at the end of the 15th century.
- Several sites offer useful timelines of the Early to Classical periods:
- A very extensive resource is the La Trobe University Library Medieval Music Database.
PEOPLE...
- Guillaume DuFay: ...
- Heinrich Finck: The following information was gleaned from several web-sites)...
- Born in Bamberg in 1445, died 09 of June, 1527, in Wein, he was educated in Warsaw and Leipzig
before holding appointments at the Polish court 1492-1506 and at the court of Wurttemberg at Stuttgart until 1514.
Later he was at the Scot. Monastry in Vienna and the Salzburg cathedral.
...quoted from the Classical Composers Database.
- Here's an example of Heinrich Fink's monastic pen.
- The Music History Resources (outlines) note him as one of the first German masters of the polyphonic Lied.
- Giorgio Migliavacca offers some additional insights into Finck, as well as several of his prominent contemporaries,
including, most notably, Konrad Paumann.
- The Musica Antiqua notes an example of Finck's contributions to the court of Emperor Maxamilian I.
- "'Practica Musica' (is) ... the title of a (early) 16th-century work by Heinrich Finck. Meaning
"practical exercises in music," Finck's work was one of the first comprehensive works for music instruction.
Practica would be things you do, as opposed to theory." ...quoted from Ars Nova Software.
- Conrad Paumann: ...
- Giorgio Migliavacca offers insights into Konrad Paumann, as well as several of his prominent contemporaries.
- (1415-1473).
- Guiraut de Bornelh: ...
TERMS...
- Chant (Gregorian), "official liturgical chant used in the Roman Catholic church. It is called Gregorian chant after Pope Gregory I, who compiled and disseminated chants for the Roman Catholic liturgy in the late 6th century."
...quoted from MS Encarta Online.
- Isorhythmic, "term coined to refer to the periodic repetition or recurrence of rhythmic patterns in 14th- and early 15th-century motets"
...quoted from Classical Music Pages.
- Madrigal, "short lyric poem, generally on the subject of love, usually in 6 to 13 iambic lines, marked by terseness and quaintness of expression; in music the term is applied to a part song for several voices, simple in style with lively rhythms and free melodic lines that often reflect the words' meaning; composed 1400s to 1600s."
...quoted from Compton's Online Encyclopedia.
- Motet, "in music, vocal composition, usually on a sacred text and historically intended to be performed in Roman Catholic church services. The motet originated in the early 13th century. At that time composers often wrote clausulae (ornate passages of Gregorian chant, written out in long note values, with added other voice parts above it). The motet arose when words were added to the upper voice parts. After about 1250, the upper parts were composed expressly as a motet and not merely taken over from a clausula. The chief characteristics of the genre were the use of more than one text simultaneously, sometimes in different languages, and the use of a segment of Gregorian chant for the lowest voice part."
...quoted from MS Encarta Online.
- Round, short vocal composition in which all voice parts sing the same melody at the same pitch, but each part enters a given number of beats after the previous voice so that the melody imitates itself. The round is a form of canon. Most rounds are circular canons—that is, they are written so that the piece can be repeated over and over.
...quoted from MS Encarta Online.
- Saltarello, "A fast Medieval monophonic dance. A fast leaping Renaissance dance, often preceded by a slower passamezzo." (Instrumental danse, 13th – 16th c. -MLW)
...quoted from San Diego State University's Knowledge Web: Music & Dance.
See also: 15th century Italian danz
...and this posting from an early music News Group.
- Troubador, Poets of noble birth, originating in the Provinceal south of France.
- Liederbuch: as in "Glogauer Liederbuch" (1480 ca./c.1450/1460/1470/c.1477-1488/1485 ca., handwritten, anon.(?), in Biblioteka Jagiellónska, Kraków). "Leid" means song. "Buch" means book. ..."Song book" in Deutsch (that's "Glogau Songbook"(c.1480) in German, incase you're a dumb American like me! -MLW ;).
- Lute, (aka Laute): Probably the best known, and contemporarily the most popular, of stringed instruments from the medieval until the beginning of the Classical periods. Predicessor to the modern guitar, and still used today.
That's all for now! -MLW :)
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