Audio Examples for The Sense of Music

Part 3. Medieval and Renaissance Periods

  1. Gregorian Chant and Its Evolution

    1. First kyrie statement from Kyrie IV
    2. D-major scale
    3. D-minor scale
    4. Dorian mode
    5. Organum
    6. Missa de Sancta Maria Discant

  2. Folk Song and Court Song

    1. False Sir John, 1st 3 lines
    2. False Sir John, last line
    3. Myxolydian scale
    4. Machaut Quant je Suis
    5. Chord based on G
    6. Gregorian chant, Kyrie from Mass IV
    7. Isorhythm pattern
    8. Pattern with chant melody
    9. Machaut, La Messe de Notre Dame

  3. Sacred Aspects

    1. Gregorian chant
    2. Ave Maria opening measures
    3. Ave Maria 2nd Stanza
    4. Put into perfect fifths
    5. Ave Maria cadence, end of 2nd stanza
    6. C major scale
    7. Luther's A Mighty Fortress
    8. A sense of incompleteness
    9. Less incomplete
    10. Assumption of the virgin
    11. Even and consonant texture

  4. Secular Aspects

    1. Monteverdi, Si ch'io vorrei morire
    2. Dowland lute Intro
    3. Dowland In darkness let me dwell
    4. Hellish, hellish - too smooth
    5. Hellish, hellish
    6. O let me living die, led up to
    7. O, let me living die
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