What a beautiful little musical treasure; many thanks for sharing this early piece with us!
Dick Sent from my iPhone On Dec 27, 2012, at 4:33 PM, WALSH STUART <[email protected]> wrote: > I found this little piece on (medievalist) Marc Lewon's website a few years > ago. It was in a document - written in German - accompanying a course that > Marc Lewon led in 2006. > > I don't speak German and, as clausulae are sacred vocal works, it might be > the case that Marc Lewon was just giving this piece as an illustration of the > music of the time. But Britannica online has this: "In the clausula the > late-medieval, dance-influenced system of rhythmic modes found its first > systematic application." So I'm guessing that Marc Lewon saw this as a > possible source of instrumental music. After all, a lower line of a chunk > from a chant with a faster moving top line seems to have been popular > throughout the medieval period. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jc4gSvkDZ0 > > > Stuart > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
