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    Posted: February 26 2010 at 04:59
I need guides and tips on how to compose medieval music, as it is a subject that intersts me a lot and comprehending its basic, and hopefully, advanced ways, I will be able to include medieval and renaissansical parts into my music.

Well that sounded like an application form LOL
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Sacral or profane medieval music?
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:10
Well, first you need to live in one of the centuries from between the 8th and 15th. Tongue
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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:30
^ Gentle Giant, you fail.
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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:33
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Well, first you need to live in one of the centuries from between the 8th and 15th. Tongue


That's what I thought as wellWinkLOL!
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time travel always works... gets you away from composing contemporary music LOL
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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:33
But seriously, I'm trying to go Last Airbender and master all musical styles, at least the ones that actually contributed to prog.
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Originally posted by Blowin Free Blowin Free wrote:

But seriously, I'm trying to go Last Airbender and master all musical styles, at least the ones that actually contributed to prog.


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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:38
I just found all the episodes and finished the show after years of living in tension (last episode I watched before was the first Eclipse battle episode, around a year ago, so yeah, I was damn nervous).
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:41
Originally posted by Blowin Free Blowin Free wrote:

^ Gentle Giant, you fail.


That's modern rock music. Maybe if you had said Gryphon I would have let you go with it Wink
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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 15:43
Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

Originally posted by Blowin Free Blowin Free wrote:

^ Gentle Giant, you fail.


That's modern rock music. Maybe if you had said Gryphon I would have let you go with it Wink

Talybont, AND Gryphon, double fail. LOL
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Points: 415 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 26 2010 at 22:27
Isn't medieval just a term given to any music pre Rennaissance, when they started writing things down? If so doesn't that make it not a style, but just a very long period in musical history.
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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 27 2010 at 03:23
If you research, you can see that medieval IS a musical genre, just one that spanned over a long amount of decades.
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I'd suggest intensive listening to music from the period (Pérotin, Guillaume de Machaut, anonymous troubadour stuff and the [more sophisticated] Renaisssance masters such as Orlando di Lasso or Palestrina) and getting hold of a few scores (if you're lucky) to see how things worked. A book or two on polyphonic composition could also be useful (I don't know of any, though :/).
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Originally posted by Ludjak Ludjak wrote:

I'd suggest intensive listening to music from the period (Pérotin, Guillaume de Machaut, anonymous troubadour stuff and the [more sophisticated] Renaisssance masters such as Orlando di Lasso or Palestrina) and getting hold of a few scores (if you're lucky) to see how things worked. A book or two on polyphonic composition could also be useful (I don't know of any, though :/).

You forgot Gallus, the master of polyphony.Wink
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Originally posted by AbrahamSapien AbrahamSapien wrote:

Originally posted by Ludjak Ludjak wrote:

I'd suggest intensive listening to music from the period (Pérotin, Guillaume de Machaut, anonymous troubadour stuff and the [more sophisticated] Renaisssance masters such as Orlando di Lasso or Palestrina) and getting hold of a few scores (if you're lucky) to see how things worked. A book or two on polyphonic composition could also be useful (I don't know of any, though :/).

You forgot Gallus, the master of polyphony.Wink

I've never heard anything by him, but I have a 200 tolar banknote somewhere Embarrassed Is there something available (recordings, scores)?
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Points: 181 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 14:14
I don't really know. I only remember, that we were told so at school ...Tongue
This is what I found after a quick search:
http://www2.cpdl.org/wiki/index.php/Jacob_Handl
All paths lead to Wikipedia.


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Points: 29630 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 28 2010 at 15:16
Have you tried going all medieval on yourself yet?  I recommend repeatedly hitting yourself on the head with with a board whilst marching in a group of similarly non-mined peoples
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 3144 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 01 2010 at 03:07
NTY.

Thanks for the tips Abe and Ludjak, although your last link leads to Handl...
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