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12 INTRODUCTION 36 Music is a science that 55 This feast … did even
makes you laugh, sing, ravish and stupefie all
EARLY MUSIC and dance those strangers that
never heard the like
Messe de Notre Dame,
1000–1400 Guillaume de Machaut Sonata pian’ e forte,
Giovanni Gabrieli
22 Psalmody is the weapon RENAISSANCE 56 My lute, awake!
of the monk Lachrimae, John Dowland
Plainchant, Anonymous 1400–1600
24 Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la 42 Not a single piece of BAROQUE
Micrologus, music composed before
Guido D’Arezzo the last 40 years … 1600–1750
is worth hearing
26 We should sing psalms Missa L’homme armé, 62 One of the most
on a ten-string psaltery Guillaume Dufay magnificent and
Ordo Virtutum, expensefull diversions
Hildegard of Bingen 43 Tongue, proclaim Euridice, Jacopo Peri
the mystery of the
28 To sing is to pray twice glorious body 64 Music must move
Magnus liber organi, Missa Pange lingua, the whole man
Léonin Josquin Desprez Vespers,
Claudio Monteverdi
32 Tandaradei, sweetly sang 44 Hear the voyce
the nightingale and prayer 70 Lully merits with
Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion, Spem in alium, good reason the
Adam de la Halle Thomas Tallis title of prince of
French musicians
46 The eternal father Le bourgeois gentilhomme,
of Italian music Jean-Baptiste Lully
Canticum Canticorum,
Giovanni da Palestrina 72 He had a peculiar
genius to express
52 That is the nature of the energy of
hymns—they make us English words
want to repeat them Dido and Aeneas,
Great Service, Henry Purcell
William Byrd
78 The object of churches
54 All the airs and madrigals is not the bawling
… whisper softness of choristers
O Care, Thou Wilt Despatch Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,
Me, Thomas Weelkes Dieterich Buxtehude
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