Polyphony

Polyphony is a musical term used to describe when two different pieces play at the same time, neither one more pronounced or emphasised than the other, yet the two play nicely together. In this problem, we have used musical polyphony as an analogy to describe multiple voices and events happening during a specific decade of the 20th century. Each person in our group is representing a different individual who had a prevalent voice in multiple areas during the 1980’s. I chose to write about Elton John

Guillaume de Machaut was a French composer and poet that was prevalent in the 14th century and is known for being one of founders of the Ars Nova musical style. The Ars Nova musical style is characterized as being the integration of complex rhythms and polyphony of secular music, and its genre is translated into ‘New Art.’ Overall this type of music is known for the advancements made toward rhythmic notation, which was greatly criticized at the time by the church. Furthermore, Gullaume de Machaut was born

The motet was one of the most important forms of polyphonic music from 1250 to 1750. The Italian mottetto was originally a profane polyphonic species of music, the air, or melody, being in the Tenor clef, taking the then acknowledged place of the canto fermo or plainchant, theme. It originated in the 13th century resulting from the practice of Pérotin and his contemporaries in Paris. The term "motet" can be translated as "the word of movement". Sometimes two upper voices had different words. In the

The Evolution of A Cappella From Pentatonix to Home Free, to Straight No Chaser, all the way back to Rockapella, a cappella has be a major part in America’s music. A cappella music is anyone singing without the accompaniment of instrumental music. A cappella music was the first type of music due to its lack of need for musical instruments. America’s view of a cappella has changed throughout history, each year a cappella is getting increasingly more popular. However, there once was a time when a

Middle Ages and Renaissance Era The Middle Ages were not known for their choice in government, ways of living, or their views on the Church. Rather, they were known for making the best of what was given to the, which was music. During the early Middle Ages, peasants stayed bound to the land they were given, but had to depend on landlords for protection. Also, many social bonds were ties of kinship, which lead to the emergence of feudalism among the warrior aristocracy ("The Middle Ages: Feudal Life"

three most well-known, and arguably most important, musical eras in western civilizations would be the; medieval, Renaissance and Baroque time periods. With the basics of music with Gregorian chant and organum from the medieval era to the newfound polyphony texture from the Renaissance and the equal temperament and major-minor tonality of the baroque era; Each time period brings a part of the foundation that most past, present, and future music is and will be based on. While it may seem that these three

marvelous influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination of Renaissance polyphony. Palestrina's masses show how his compositional style developed over time. One of the symbols of Palestrina's music is that dissonances are typically credited to the "weak" beats in a measure.This produced a smoother and more consonant type of polyphony which we now consider late Renaissance music, given Palestrina's position as Europe's leading composer. In this piece,

the most important place where Baroque and Renaissance were playing as a serve in the church . There are many changes happened between the renaissance and baroque period : The first crucial distinction is the texture the shift from the imitative polyphony in the renaissance era to treble-bass polarity,monody and the development of basso continuo . The second crucial distinction is the tone of the baroque music was of development of tonal architecture and formal principles; baroque, binary, ternary

​ Life in the Middle Ages revolved around the Church, which was the Roman Catholic. So, we can imagine early music was pretty much from church. Every morning at 9 o’clock was Mass, a significant ceremony done to commemorate the Last Supper. At this church service, the music was the Gregorian Chant. The Gregorian chant is performed in the Latin language, unison voice and accompanied by no instruments which was believed that the text of the song which carried the divine message from God was more important

Guillaume De Machaut is one of the earliest composers with information on his life. Guillaume was born in 1323 and born in a small village in Machaut. Guillaume died in 1377 in April and the place of death is not known. Guillaume was educated in Reirns, a town near Machaunt. He did not play an instrument, instead he sang secular and sacred music. Machaut was not married but did have a love affair with a 19 year old girl in his later years of life and did not have any kids. He also wrote poetry