Music History/Form Style

Stasimon Chorus

   Euripides

   408 BC

Chorus from a Greek tragedy, stasimon: ode that is sung

Female singer and aulos (double reed instrument playing with voice and drone)

Victimae Paschali Laudes

Wipo of Burgundy

Early 11th Century

ABBCC...Z

Sequence for Easter (after Alleluia)

Orientis Partibus

Unknown composer

12th Century

Conductus: music to accompany religious procession, any Latin poem of period set to music if

1. Not church chant tune.

2. Not used in liturgy

Sumer is Icumen in

Unknown composer

1250

Rota: canon with unison, all voices sing same part, start different times

A’larme, a’larme

Grimace

1370

Virelai: one of the three fixed forms that includes repetition and refrain

-abba form

-different meters

Le Chant de Oiseaux

Clement Janequin

1537

French chanson: non-sacred French piece; often followed Rondeau form

O Magnum Mysterium

Tomas Luis de Victoria

1570

Motet

Solo e pensoso

Luca Marenzio

1590s

Through-composed which allows for text painting; each stanza set to
new music rather than in a strophic manner or a single melody

Madrigalisms

In dulci jubilo

Michael Praetorius

1619

Grand Concerto, alternation: solo, choir, congregation

Saul, was verfolgst du mich

Heinrich Schutz

1632

Large scale concerto