Listening & Reading
Lecture 1: Chant and Troubadour Song
- Anonymous, “Agnus Dei” from the Mass for Christmas Day (Agnus Dei)
- Anonymous, “Haec dies” (gradual)
- Thomas Aquinas (text attribution), “Pange lingua gloriosi mysterium” (hymn)
- Hildegard von Bingen, The Play of Virtues, end of scene 1
- “Dies Irae” (chant) from the Liber Usualis
- Guirat de Bornelh, “Reis Glorios” (troubadour song)
- Written vs. oral traditions
- Music at court
- Monophonic songs
- Medieval musicians
- Troubadours, trobairitz, and trouvères
- Minnesang
- Chivalric love—l’amour de loin
- Through-composed, strophic form, bar form
- Bernart de Ventadorn, “Can vei la lauzeta mover”
- Comtessa de Dia, “A chantar m’er de so qu’eu no volria”
