Hello Alexander
Le 28-Nov-98, Alexander Lingas a écrit:
> Even if the
> "Summa Musice" is describing a so-called "free" melody--which, if I
> remember correctly, seems kind of hard to reconcile with the kinds of
> polyphony it describes with several voices singing in parallel--the held
> note in all the styles described as "basilica" certainly fits the
standard
> definition of an "ison," which in the received Byzantine tradition can
move
> around to reflect a change in tetrachord.
I disagree, because the conceptions are different. For sure, you have a sort
of "drone" with aquitanian and parisian organum, but this is not a drone:
in the medieval polyphony you have always the idea of a /vox principalis/
and a /vox organalis/ (i.e. a singing part taken from an existing item and
a second--third or more--part freely composed or improvised above or under
the other. Now, the drone effects of the organum are not a /vox organalis/
added to the chant (as in the case of the neo-byzantine ison) but the very
/vox principalis/ held in long values. It is not the same thing and it is
not fair to do one for the other only becouse the "sound" is similar. This
is simply not serius from a musicological and even simply musical point of
view.
Meilleures salutations
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