Early Music: An Crashe Cours, Quic & Dirti

A whirlwind musical frolic from the Early Middle Ages through the Late Renaissance. Learn about key composers, musical styles, and evolving aesthetics. You'll also get recommendations of my favorite recordings, and reflections on what these musicks mean to me personally.

0:00 Introit
3:21 Early Middle Ages
9:30 High Middle Ages
16:03 Late Middle Ages
21:40 the "Landini Cadence"
24:45 Early Renaissance
29:52 a little on counterpoint
33:10 High Renaissance
37:02 Late Renaissance


Recordings mentioned:

Konrad Ruhland - Gregorian Chant https://bit.ly/3FKDbdj
Ensemble Organum - Mozarabic Chant https://spoti.fi/39l5K4M
Sequentia - Hildegard von Bingen: Canticles of Ecstasy https://spoti.fi/3MbsvXr
Sequentia - Hildegard von Bingen: Ordo Virtutum https://spoti.fi/3lagUMo
Sequentia - Aquitania https://spoti.fi/3FNu8rW
Early Music Consort of London - Music of the Gothic Era https://spoti.fi/3ld4VxO
Hilliard Ensemble - Perotin https://spoti.fi/3FMydwp
Oxford Camerata - Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame https://spoti.fi/3LivWtY
Ensemble Organum - Guillaume de Machaut: La Messe de Nostre Dame https://spoti.fi/3yUsXFV
Gothic Voices - The Mirror of Narcissus: Songs by Guillaume de Machaut https://bit.ly/3PpQzHW
Anonymous 4 - The Second Circle: Love Songs by Francesco Landini https://spoti.fi/3yEBjRR
Ensemble P.A.N. - Ars Magis Subtiliter https://spoti.fi/3MgnAob
Hulegas Ensemble - Dufay: O Gemma Lux https://spoti.fi/3FKMycO
Clerk's Group - The Ockeghem Collection https://spoti.fi/3weurIZ
A Sei Voci - Josquin Desprez: Missa Pange Lingua & Motets https://spoti.fi/3lfZeix
Hilliard Ensemble - Josquin: Motets and Chansons https://spoti.fi/37MxA9N
Oxford Camerata - Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli https://spoti.fi/38sbSrK
Concerto Italiano - Palestrina: Il Primo Libro de Madrigali a Quattro Voci https://spoti.fi/3Pgc4uO
Tallis Scholars - English Madrigals https://spoti.fi/3N6ZOuS
Cantus Cölln - Orlando di Lasso: Prophetiae Sibyllarum https://spoti.fi/3Lesd0D
Andreas Scholl - English Folksongs & Lute Songs https://spoti.fi/3lalb2o
Shirley & Dolly Collins - Anthems in Eden https://spoti.fi/3NkAtxH
La Compagnia del Madrigale - Gesualdo: Sesto Libro de Madrigali https://spoti.fi/3FOF7kR