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Notations of Early Polyphony
Dasian NotationModal Notation
Dasia Notation
Dasia Notation
Dasia Notation• Sources: Musica Enchiriadis and Scolia Enc
hiriadis, anon., s. 9 ex., N. Fr.• importance treatises for the early history of
modal theory and of polyphony in the intellectual environment of the Carolingian Renaissance
• containing the earliest discussions of polyphonic singing (organum) and its notation, citing many late Latin literary and philosophical sources.
Dasia Notation
• Three kinds of organum– octave– fifth
• + octave doubling, choral• + mixture stop on the organ
– fourth• avoid tritones – diabolus in musica!• “artifical” polyphony: parts independent• solistic
Dasia Notation
Dasia Notation
Ex. “Rex celi Domine”
Ex. “Rex celi Domine”
Modal Notation
Modal Notation
• Notre Dame School/Epoch, s. 12 m.–s. 13 m.
• Leonin: optimus organista• Perotin: optimus discantor
– Magnus liber organi de gradali et antiphonario
• Sources: W1, F, W2
Perotin, Organum triplum “Alleluia Nativitas”
W2=WolfenbüttelHerzog August Bibliothek, Codex Guelf. 1099 Helmst., fol. 16r (s. 13 ex.)
Modal NotationEx. Early polyphonic elaborations on Alleluia. Pascha nostrum
Alleluia. Pascha nostrum
Alleluia. Pascha nostrum
Modal Notation (L=longa, B=brevis)
• tenaria ambiguous: LBL, BLB, BBL, LLL, BBB?
Perotin, 4-part clausula “Mors,” W1=Wolfenbüttel, Cod. Guelf. 628 Helmst., fol. 4v. (s. 13 m.)
Organum,Rome, Biblio. Apost. Vat., Fondo Ottoboniano Lat. 3025, f. 49