《Lecture 15耶鲁大学开放课程《聆听音乐》讲稿》.pdf

Yale University Listening to Music Lecture 15 Professor Craig Wright: Today we begin a slightly different portion of our course. Well be talking about the periods in the history of music beginning with the Middle Ages, and Ive pit--put--the names of those periods that we will be covering in our course up here on the board. Obviously: Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, Impressionist, Modernism. We could even add to that Post-Modernist now and probably throw into that Popular Music in a general way. Were going to begin here with Gregorian chant, talking about the traditional music of the Roman Catholic Church. We will not be promoting in here the values of the Roman Catholic Church any more than we promoted the values of the Jewish religion when we listened to klezmer music or the Islamic religion when we listened to the Adhan or we will be promoting--we will not, in fact, be promoting the Lutheran tradition when we deal with Bach next time. This aint religion in this course; this is art. So with that understood, lets begin with an introduction to medieval music starting with Gregorian chant. What is Gregorian chant? Gregorian chant is the monophonic, one-line music--monophonic, one-line music of the Roman Catholic Church as it existed from the time of the earliest church fathers up until the time of the Council of Trent. The Council of Trent, as you may know from your history courses, was a conclave held in the northern Italian town of Trento, Italy, from 1545 to 1563 at which time they tried to combat the effects of the Protestant Reformation, instituting reforms within the church, purifying the existing church of Rome--cleaning up the Catholic Church in effect. Among the things that got purified were the art and the music. No more nudity was allowed in art and any nudity that was already there in religious art was painted over. Any sort of secular tombs we