Early Music Sources

Return to: MUSC 726A

Selected Topics

1. Gregorian chant {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
2. Modes in the 16th and 17th centuries {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
3. Cadences in the 16th and 17th centuries {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• Cadenza doppia and five cool things you can do with it! {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
4. Musica ficta {YouTube; Footnotes}
5. Other
• Mensural notation: the basics {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• Solmization and the Guidonian hand in the 16th century {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• Durum and Molle / Hard and soft in the music of the Renaissance {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• The Hexachord System
• False relations in the late Renaissance {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}
• Early World Painting {YouTube; Footnotes: EMS}

1. Counterpoint {YouTube Playlist}
• Consonances according to Tomás de Santa María {YouTube}
2. Notation {YouTube Playlist}
• Mensural notation: the basics {YouTube}
• Intabulations in the 16th and 17th centuries {YouTube}
• EMS SERENISSIMA - Font presentation {YouTube}
3. Tuning {YouTube Playlist}

1. Basso Continuo & Partimento
• The Rule of the Octave {YouTube}
• Partimento - Training the Maestri {YouTube}
• Italian Basso Continuo
• 1600-1650 {YouTube}
• 1650-1700 {YouTube}
2. Improvisation & Diminution
• Improvisation around 1600 {YouTube}
• The art of diminution in the 16th century {YouTube}
• How to improvise polyphony in four voices according to Santa María {YouTube}
• Tutorial: Acciaccature & Mordenti according to Gasparini {YouTube}
• Cantare super librum {YouTube}
3. Canon
• The Magic Table That Lets You Compose Canons Over A Cantus Firmus (1596) {YouTube}
4. Score Analysis
• #1 Cipriano de Rore / Amor ben mi credevo {YouTube}
• #2 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Hexachord Fantasia {YouTube}
• #3 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck / Ricercar del nono tono {YouTube}
• #4 Unsatisfyingly sweet: Josquin's Mille Regretz {YouTube}
• #5 - William Byrd / Hugh Ashton's ground [Tregian’s ground] {YouTube}

Link

Elam Rotem, Early Music Sources  – https://www.earlymusicsources.com