Medieval and Renaissance Music Appreciation

Well, as promised, I have compiled music appreciation resources to complement the study of Medieval and Renaissance history.

I decided to have the units go along with the way the units are divided in the Connecting With History, Volume 3 curriculum (affiliate link). The numbering of the units follows the older edition that I have here at home, so if you're using the newer edition, please note that the numbering will be off by one unit.

I have made the units available as a PDF document, but will also set up the unit links here on this page. That way, if a link goes dead (as YouTube links are known to do), I can make the changes here first and eventually update the PDF and post the updated document in the downloads section of the blog.

Download Music appreciation for Volume 3

 You may also be interested in the playlist I compiled for this study on YouTube: CWH Volume 3 Music Appreciation: Medieval/Renaissance

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Unit 1: Early to mid 11^th c.: Review/Vikings

Learning:

• Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien: pp. 65-67 (Gregorian Chant)
• Learning About Gregorian Chant by the Monks of Solesmes
• Gregorian Chant For Church and School: See the section titled “The Story of Gregorian Chant” (pp. 3-5)
• Jubilate Deo from St. Cecilia Schola:  (Short form ordinary in modern notation) Minimum Repertoire of Plain Chant/ Jubilate Deo

• pp. 1-2 Kyrie, mp3Gloriamp3
• pp. 4-5 Credo, Sanctusmp3
• pp. 7-8 Pater Nostermp3, Agnus Deimp3

• Chant
• Guido of Arezzo
• Ut Queant Laxis, basis for solfege
• Vikings and their Music
• I Dreamed a Dream, most likely composed pre-14^th century, Viking tune
• sheet music for the tune

 Listening:

YouTube videos:

• Mass for Christmas Day: Introit
• Ut Queant Laxis (8^th c.)
• Veni Ceator Spiritus
• I Dreamed a Dream

 Early Music Listening (Norton Anthology, needs free RealPlayer download)

• Mass for Christmas Day (Introit through Alleluia)
• Mass for Christmas Day (Credo)
• Mass for Christmas Day, et al (Offertory, etc.)

Harmonia Early Music (needs free RealPlayer download)

• Harmonia: Music for Celtic Saints: Program webpage
• Harmonia: Revisiting Chant
• Harmonia: Women’s Voices, Medieval Chant
• Harmonia: 1000: A Mass for the End of Time (Anonymous 4)

Other:

• Veni Creator Spiritus:  (available for free download)
• Kyriale MP3s (with gifs of the neumes)

 For Puchase: (affiliate links)

• Anonymous 4: 1000: A Mass for the End of Time
• The Soul of Chant: Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos

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Unit 2: Late 11th C. and 12th Century (1070-1200): The Crusades, Feudalism, Knighthood, Chivalry, Military orders

Learning:

• Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien: pp. 69-70 (Hildegard of Bingen); pp. 71-73 (Secular Music, Organum, Notre Dame)
• Hildegard von Bingen:  (by Krista Cornish Scott)
• Bernard de Ventadorn (troubadour)
• Ja Nus Hon Pris (by Richard the Lionheart)
• Léonin
• Ars Antiqua
• Early Instrumental Music (secular)

Listening:

YouTube Videos

• Hildegard von Bingen: Sequentia: Canticles of Ecstasy
• Bernard de Ventadorn: Can vei Ia Iauzeta mover
• Bernard de Ventadorn: Millenarium: Ben m’an perdut
• Ja Non Hus Pris: (Modern, Owain Phyfe version)
• Ja Non Hus Pris: (Labor Intus)
• Léonin, etc. Alleluia Pascha nostrum

Early Music Listening (RealPlayer)

• Hildegard of Bingen: Ordo virtutum: In principio omnes Sequentia
• Bernard de Ventadorn: Can vei Ia Iauzeta mover
• Léonin, etc. Alleluia Pascha nostrum

Harmonia Early Music (RealPlayer)

• Harmonia: Music of the Crusades
• Harmonia: Hildegard of Bingen
• Harmonia: Sybil of the Rhine

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Unit 3: 13th Century: (1201-1300) Religious Orders, Education, Magna Charta

Learning:

• Pérotin
• Adam de la Halle
• Beatriz de Dia
• Sumer is icumen in: (Middle English round)

Listening:

YouTube Videos

• Pérotin: Organum quadruplum: Sederunt
• Adam de la Halle: jeu de Robin et de Marion: Rondeau: Robins m'aime
• Beatriz de Dia: Canso: A chanter
• Istampita Palamento
• Sumer is icumen in (Hilliard Ensemble)

Hymns: (St. Thomas Aquinas)

• Pange Lingua
• Tantum Ergo
• Adoro Te Devote

Early Music Listening (RealPlayer)

• Pérotin: Organum quadruplum: Sederunt
• Adam de la Halle: jeu de Robin et de Marion: Rondeau: Robins m'aime
• Beatriz de Dia: Canso: A chanter
• Istampita Palamento

Harmonia Early Music (RealPlayer)

• Harmonia: Marco Polo
• Harmonia: Trecento
• Harmonia: Phillippe De Vitry (1215)
• Harmonia: Music for St. Francis
• Harmonia: Medieval Music for St. Francis
• Harmonia: Pilgrimage

As a review of all the changes of early medieval music through the 13^th century, watch part 1 of BBC’s “Story of Music” (up to 26:15)

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Unit 4: 14th Century: (1301-1400) Castles, Royalty, Daily Life of Ordinary People, Cathedrals

Learning:

• Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien: pp. 74-76 (Ars Nova, Guillaume de Machaut
• Ars Nova
• Guillaume de Machaut
• Guillaume Dufay
• Francesco Landini
• L’homme armé
• Trecento Italy

Listening:

YouTube Videos

• Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame
• Dufay: Se La Face Ay Pale:  (Asteria)
• Dufay: Se La Face Ay Pale (Missa/Gloria)
• Francesco Landini (1325-1397): Ballata: Non avrd ma' pietà
• L’homme armé: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHNMgDIk1QI

Early Music Listening (RealPlayer)

• Guillaume de Machaut: Mass/Agnus Dei (from Messe de Notre Dame)
• Dufay: Se La Face Ay Pale  (Ballad and Missa/Gloria)
• Francesco Landini (1325-1397): Ballata: Non avrd ma' pietà 

Harmonia Early Music (RealPlayer)

• Harmonia: Guillaume de Machaut
• Harmonia: Guillaume Dufay
• Harmonia: Trecento (Italian Ars Nova)
• Harmonia: A Tribute to St. Joan

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Unit 5: 15th Century: (1401-1500) Beginning of the Renaissance – Artists of the Renaissance, Early Explorers

Learning:

• Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien: pp. 76-79 (Renaissance music, Josquin)
• Asteria on the music of the Burgindian court (scroll down to read translations when listening): /
• Josquin Desprez
• The Renaissance

Listening:

YouTube Videos

• Asteria: Quant la doulce jouvencelle (filmed in a chateau once belonging to a Burgundian Duke):
• Josquin Desprez: Ave Maria, Virgo Serena (motet)

Early Music Listening (RealPlayer)

• Desprez: Missa Pange lingua: Kyrie; Credo: Et incarnatus est Crucifixus:

Harmonia Early Music (RealPlayer)

• Harmonia: Dukes of Burgundy
• Harmonia: Da Vinci a la Mode
• Harmonia: Especially Espana
• Harmonia: Portuguese Renaissance

Other

• Asteria: Le Souvenir de Vous me Tue: Medieval Chansons from the Court of Phillip the Good (Burgundy)

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Unit 6/7: 16^th Century: Protestant Revolt/Reformation, Catholic Reformation in Europe, Jesuit Missionaries to Japan and China, Continuing Exploration of New World

Learning:

• Music: An Appreciation by Roger Kamien: pp.80-87 (Palestrina, Secular, Madgrigals)
• Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
• Tomas Luis de Victoria
• William Byrd
• BBC: Playing Elizabeth’s Tune (William Byrd):
• Thomas Morley
• Thomas Weelkes
• John Downland
• Carlo Gesualdo
• Claudio Monteverdi

Listening:

YouTube Videos

• Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass
• Tomas Luis de Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium
• Thomas Morley: Now is the Month of Maying
• William Byrd: Ye Sacred Muses
• Thomas Weelkes: As Vesta Was…
• John Dowland: The Queen’s Galliard (Julian Bream): 
• John Dowland: Flow My Tears, Sting version,  Lachrimae (instrumental, Julian Bream):
• Gesualdo: Moro Lasso (sounds modern!)
• MonteverdI: Lasciatemi morire (Arianna’s Lament, “L’Arianna”)
• Monteverdi: Tu Se Morta (“L’Orfeo”)

 Early Music Listening (RealPlayer)

• Thomas Weelkes: Madrigal: O Care, thou wilt despatch me
• John Dowland: Flow My Tears
• William Byrd: Pavana: Lachrymae: (a fantasy on Dowland’s “Flow My Tears”)
• Tomas Luis de Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium

Harmonia Early Music (RealPlayer)

• Harmonia: Lionheart: The Music of Palestrina
• Harmonia: Elizabeth’s Music
• Harmonia: Dowland
• Harmonia: Shakespeare’s Music
• Harmonia: Gesualdo
• Harmonia: New Monteverdi

Other Resources:

• Review of 14^th-16^th century music; watch the rest of part 1 of BBC’s “Story of Music” (from 26:15 on)
• Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments
• Song of the Unicorn:  (Classical Kids)

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I hope you find these resources useful!