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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"plainchant"”.
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Plainchant Accompaniment and Modal Harmony in Nineteenth-Century France
… of the nineteenth century, harmonization of plainchant melodies had become a trend among church organists. In their harmonizations, many of these organists freely applied the harmonic conventions of what may be characterized today as common-practice tonality, such as dominant-to-tonic …
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Speaking in Tones: Plainchant, Monody, and the Evocation of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy
… de’ Cavalieri, and Claudio Monteverdi used plainchant formulas in their compositions for solo voice: Peri used psalm tones in <i>Euridice</i>; Caccini used Tenebrae chant melisma in <i>Le nuove musiche</i>; Cavalieri quoted the Lamentations chant in his <i>Lamentationes</i>; Monteverdi …
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Plainchant and liturgy in the diocese of Münster in Westphalia : the fifteenth-century Freckenhorst antiphoner (D-MÜd PfA 53)
… in the middle of the fifteenth century. The plainchantmelodies are in German neumatic notation (Hufnagelschrift) and the texts are in Gothictextualis textura, textualis rotunda, textualis quadrata and textualis semi-quadrata. The studyproceeds from the work of Hans Ossing, Untersuchungen zum …
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Heinrich Bewerunge (1862–1923): A Critical Reassessment of His Life and Influence
… his seminal critiques of the Vatican editions of plainchant. This research has discovered a significant number of previously overlooked published articles; an appraisal of these, along with his known work, vindicates his standing in a broader field of scholarship. The thesis also proves that an …
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Constancy and Changes in Petr Eben's Sacred Choral Works: An Overview
… in each chapter is devoted to the influence of plainchant if the selected work is chant-derived. The conclusion evaluates the constancy and changes of Eben's compositional practices and assesses the degree to which his style changed over time.
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Portfolio of compositions with technical commentary
… and un-pitched/percussive material alongside plainchant and imitative textures. The narrative is often mechanistic and relies on offbeat accents to propel the music forwards.<br/>In her little room (2011) – a foray into both the world of music theatre and electronics – sets out to incorporate …
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Creating Clausulae at Notre-Dame-de-Paris: A Study of Compositional Processes and Techniques
… of medieval singers who fashioned portions of plainchant into rhythmically measured polyphony. Divided into two parts, this study investigates tenor and duplum voices of clausulae in turn, examining their compositional features to illuminate the precise ways that musical materials have been …
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Chant circulation as an ecology of mind : considering neo-Gregorian super-regional diffusion as a communication system
… to being the examination of how medieval plainchant traveled and transformed across Western Europe, the study of chant transmission in the Middle Ages is ultimately the study of variants and the information they carry. I draw on Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind to reconceive transmission …
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'n stylkritiese studie van Maurice Durufle se orrelwerke
… works were directly influenced by Gregorian plainchant, the Impressionism and his teachers Vierne and Tournemire. Indirect influences were the traditions of the nineteenth-century French organ school, contributions of important nineteenth-century composers and developments in the art of organ …
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Liturgical expressions of a classical romantic: a choral conductor's investigation of selected sacred trebel chorus compositions by Josef Rheinberger
… to textual clarity and influences of plainchant shape the motets and the mass. In addition to Rheinberger’s consideration of liturgical demands, his philosophy regarding contemporary practices in worship music is also revealed in the lyrical, sweeping melodies and chromatically rich …
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The Shores of Light
… — a strongly modal melody reminiscent of both plainchant and folksong, which serves as both the initial premise and foundation for the piece — is rooted in serene yet archaic stasis. After a brief introduction, the theme is subjected to tremendous pressure by external forces, which eventually …
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The Miserere Tradition from the Cathedral of Santiago de Guatemala
… polyphony, and even-numbered verses are set to plainchant. This pattern was generally maintained even if it required local modifications, such as adding or removing material, rewriting sections, or altering the text, in compositions imported from Europe or composed locally. In this study I argue …
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André Mocquereau's Theory of Rhythm
<p>This dissertation examines the theory of rhythm developed by Dom André Mocquereau (1849–1930), a French Benedictine monk. Mocquereau’s theory was originally conceived as a method for performing Gregorian chant and has been the source for numerous publications and recordings since the beginning …