Beginning in the Renaissance, composers developed a system where expressive gestures could chevy specific responses to the listener. Expressive gesturers were tied to a specific accent of text. If the words of a motet or madrigal said he ascended on high the music would rise in hand over and become lighter in grain. Conversely, if the text read and he fell into the flaming pits of Hell, the music would descend, become denser in texture and filled with painful dissonance. Composers from Vivaldi to Bach, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky all used this regularity of expression in purely instrumental music.
Early music besides did not work this way. Before 1530, the 3 religious whole kit such as the compassionate Virgin Mary, a found mourning the dead, and a song commemorating a hawkish warrior all sounded the same: an indistinguishable stream of polyphony. They were unable to recognise the subject matter or spiritual message of the separate works unless they knew these particular compositions.
The most overt musical symbolism appeared in symbolic scores, music manuscripts in which the layout on the summon suggested the composers intent. For example, a song regarding a funeral world power be self-possessed entirely in black notes or a heat song might be disposed to form a heart. Musical symbolism could also occur by government agency of number. Notes within a motet could be arranged of thirty, for example, to represent Judas lese majesty of Christ for 30 pieces of silver.
Also, the most perfect form of the mediaeval church labyrinth possesses a double retrograding rhythm. Similarly, Christs journey from promised land to Hell and back involved a recursive progress, a reversal. Two early motets reveal how retrograde motion might be used for symbolic purposes in music. In the Motet world-beater of Mercy, four voices sing of the virtues of the Virgin Mary and contrast...
Like me, I am someone who doesnt know much about music or much of the history. But after viewing this piece I know more than I used to. It is very neat to the point and quick.
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