Welcome back to Between the Barlines! Today we are going to explore different types of songs prior to the renaissance era in western classical music! If you haven’t listened to any of the previous episodes from this season, please give those a listen because many of the aforementioned topics help us understand how the music we are going to start talking about today developed.

Information taken from personal notes, Burkholder’s History of Western Music, and various aurally cited websites.

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! You’re in for a very special episode today because it’s Music Theory Friday! Today we are going to wrap up important theory practices in the medieval era of music. These practices have helped shape how we teach and learn to sight read today.

Link to video on using Guidonian Hand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlleweQuq14&list=FLauoGSS-pPYvKwgqMVGgM4g

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am your host, Dr. Maeve Berry. In today’s episode, we are going to learn about more forms of chant that we see in a mass and explore a very important figure in the 12th century who was a prolific composer of sacred chant.

Featured chant is taken from a concert performed in October of 2023 by Voices in Rochester, NY. Here is a link to that full concert which was recorded and live-streamed by Incarnate Word Church. https://www.youtube.com/live/kOdDehWTd14?si=Oa6YKeghNp_Op4NL

Hildegard Society Website: http://www.hildegard-society.org/p/home.html

Link to O quam mirabilis est: http://www.hildegard-society.org/2014/07/o-quam-mirabilis-est-antiphon.html