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Gilles Binchois, Guillaume Dufay, homophonic, monophic, Mozart, polyphonic, Requiem, Thomas Tallis
Polyphony was invented by the Greeks. It is part of Western Europe’s Græco-Roman heritage. Guillaume Dufay (August 5, 1397 – November 27, 1474), Gilles Binchois (c. 1400 – 20 September 1460), and Johannes Ockeghem (1410–1425 Belgium – February 1497) contributed to the development of polyphony (Franco-Flemish school).
The examples I have used below are taken from Wikipedia and YouTube. (Please donate to Wikipedia. Small donations add up.)
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- one voice (that could constitute the cantus firmus, or melody, of a piece to which voices would be added)
- eight “measures”
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- four voices (polyphonic)
- sung simultaneously
Homophony in Tallis’s (c. 1505 – 23 November 1585) “If ye love me,” composed in 1549. The four voices move together using the same rhythm, and the relationship between them creates chords: the excerpt begins and ends with an F major triad. (Wikipedia)
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- Four voices
- polyphonic, but not chordal (not played simultaneously)
Above is a bar, or measure, taken from J.S. Bach‘s “Fugue No.17 in A flat”, BWV 862, from Das Wohltemperierte Clavier (Part I), a famous example of contrapuntal polyphony. (Wikipedia)
The numbers indicate finguering. They do not refer to the position of the chord: root position and inversions. During the baroque period, it was not unusual simply to provide musicians with a figured bass from which they “realized” the chords.
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Harmony (polyphony mixing human voices and instrumental voices) (click on title to hear)
- Mozart’s Requiem (from film Amadeus [1994], Confutatis)
- Mozart’s Requiem (Confutatis, music & score)
- If ye love me (Thomas Tallis)
- If ye love me (Thomas Tallis)
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December 8, 2011
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