Listening Journal #4 Josquin Des Prez

Today I will be doing another composition, this time on a somewhat newer composer than Perotin, the person that I listened to last time. The song that I will be listening to is "Ave Maria".

Musical Elements:

• Overall, the texture is polyphonic.
• This song is in a round between 4 parts
• 4 part choir, 2 females, 2 males
•  In duple meter
• Tonality throughout the whole piece is mostly major

Musical Structure:

• Starts off with 4 voices, and changes the melody 3 different times 

Musical Techniques:

• Many cadences
• Decrescendo on the way down from a phrase

Musical Context:

• In Latin, therefore sacred
• Mass
• Syllabic

Pérotin's "Beata Viscera": An Analysis

Today I will be analyzing a piece of medieval music by Perotin. This will be a short analysis

because I will just examine the musical elements of this piece:

Tonality:

Monophonic
Minor

Tinbre:

One female voice 

Meter: Free meter with an implied triple meter

Form: Many cadences, but the tonal center does not change. The main melody is repeated many times over 

Style: Conductus, sacred, syllabic