discussion post about medieval music mus100

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Listen to Hildegard of Bingen’s Alleluia, O virga mediatrix and Ma fin est mon commencement (My end is my beginning).

The listening guides are on pp. 67 and 71 in the textbook, respectively.

  • Although one of these is a piece of sacred music, the other secular, what do they have in common that points to their being written during the Middle Ages?
  • Can you hear the difference in musical textures?
  • Do you know of any other music that is monophonic or polyphonic texture?