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

I hope you’re enjoying exploring what we classify as the medieval times in music. Today, we are going to take some time to learn about the parts of the mass, some of which are variable and others that are invariable.

Recommended Recordings:

Rheinberger Mass in E-flat major: https://open.spotify.com/album/1s80FVp437mFKdUa4Tm8hn?si=9Ck9dqN2Ree_2Pp9odri5Q

Byrd Mass for 5 Voices:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5o2Vzb7bgZHzE5sHh2T38o?si=_dtOanSpRQKOsSdHMIGd_A

Duruflé Requiem (organ):

https://open.spotify.com/album/3E8ANGvBQrUOedNKwMy222?si=aSkrCcwlRKOcxqfCbmt8Mw

Brahms Requiem:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1qk8uGka8QOSUvnq5C2hLt?si=uLv-1d7hSYe0ehXAsVHCnw

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! I am especially excited for today’s episode, because we will only be talking about MUSIC THEORY! In order to help you study for large comprehensive music exams, I am going to take a couple of our Friday episodes to end the week to review some music theory topics. Following along chronologically in our learning, it only felt right to spend today’s short episode talking about church modes!

Welcome back to Between the Barlines! In today’s episode we will begin to take a look further down the timeline and talk about how the church provoked musical changes in the first millennium.

Link to Noel Jones's guide on singing Gregorian chant notation: https://www.ststephenvc.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/beginner-guide-chant.pdf

Today, we are going to chat about Ancient Greece and how much of what happened in the centuries between Babylonian times and the 1st Century AD have shaped the foundation of music.

In today's episode, join Dr. Maeve Berry in exploring antiquity in Mesopotamia and Asian countries before the first century AD. The episode touches on expansions in instruments, scales, and the usage of important ancient texts.