9-6 Reading

pp. xv-xvi – Introduction

p. 1 - Prelude

pp. 3-4 - entries on Historical Time Periods, Pitch, and Note

pp. 4-9 - entries on Interval, Scale, and Melody

pp. 45-49 – entries on Middle Ages, A Cappella Singing, and Church Modes

Main Concepts

Music in the Middle Ages (450 - 1450)

• Church modes were used - most music we have from this time is in a Church mode
• Major/minor modes were not standard
• A mode is a scale - some modes cause different feelings
• A Capella Singing genres: Mass, Motets, Organa, Plainchant
  

Modes throughout the ages