Today we met in the music library which is where we will stay for the rest of the semester. We are slightly crowded in the back room, but a little coziness may enhance learning. At least nobody can fall asleep easily!
We spent some time looking at www.lcsproductions.net which is great resource for music history and theory. We then listened to Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, truly a magnificent piece in all respects. A few more minutes of discussion and we jumped backward in time to early music. What did you think of Liebestod? How did you feel after it was done?
Discussing monody, plainsong, chant, organum, church modes, rhythmic modes, tropes and sequences, and parts of the mass, we landed on Machaut where we spent some time discussing Isorhythm. A few minutes of notation and a few more on the printing press, and we find ourselves nearly ready to go forward in time to today! Should be fun!
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Liebestod had so much emotion and the sound had a grand and large feel. I thoroughly enjoyed it
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