
	Where results make sense

Topic: Isorhythm

Related Topics

Isorhythmic motet

Alban Berg

Color

List of musical topics

Hemiola

BACH motif

Glasgow, Scotland

Bothwell

November 23

Whangaehu River

December 24

1954

1953

December

Tangiwai disaster

	Isorhythm
		Isorhythm (iso or same) is a rhythm or rhythmic gesture, talea (cutting, plural taleae), which is repeated within a tenor melody whose pitch content or series, color (repetition), varied in the number of members from the talea.
		The term was coined in 1900 by Friedrich Ludwig to describe this practice in 14th and 15th century polyphonic motets but is also used in motets of the middle ages, the music of India, and by modern composers such as Alban Berg, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage.
		The color of isorhythm may be compared with the tone row of the twelve-tone technique.
	www.mp3.fm /Isorhythm.htm (246 words)

	Sonic Glossary: Isorhythm
		The isorhythmic tenor is similar: though it's hidden, the whole piece depends on it, and the other voices are structured rhythmically -- and sometimes melodically -- in relation to it.
		Often, an entire isorhythmic composition will be based on a proportion: for example, in the second half of the piece, the isorhythmic pattern from the first half might be repeated, but twice as fast.
		Isorhythm is one way in which late medieval and early Renaissance composers structured polyphonic works, especially motets and sections of the Mass.
	www.columbia.edu /ccnmtl/draft/paul/sonic/iso.html (1055 words)

	HOASM: Isorhythm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the isorhythmic motet it became fragmented into sections of identical rhythm.
		The isorhythmic motet became the major art form of the French Ars Nova.
		Isorhythm enabled the tight organization of extended works, no small advantage in pieces which can baffle all but the most informed listener with their surface complexity of polyrhythms, polymeters, and polytextuality.
	www.hoasm.org /IID/Isorhythm.html (441 words)

	Nuper Rosarum Flores
		Isorhythmic motets contain two parts: the color, which is a pitch pattern, and the talea, which is the rhythmic pattern.
		Roughly translated to mean "equal rhythm", isorhythm is characterized by the end of the talea and the end of the color coinciding (Yudkin 462-464).
		DuFay wrote Nuper Rosarum Flores as an isorhythmic motet, but his expertise is hardly comparable to those who first explored the use of isorhythm as they were just beginning to understand the uses of changing meter.
	navygreen.tripod.com /MusicHistory/id6.html (1802 words)

	London Sinfonietta - Interact/Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The two elements of an isorhythm are usually referred to as the color –; a set of pitches, or a melody–; and the talea, a set of durations, or a rhythm.
		Birtwistle's interest in isorhythm grew out of a more general concern amongst British composers in the 1950s with the use of single lines (e.g., a melody) as a basis for their music: how to create them, and then how to develop them.
		Isorhythm is rarely so clearly audible in Birtwistle's music, however, and many other compositional procedures form part of his sophisticated technical armoury.
	www.londonsinfonietta.org.uk /interact/games_iso_Q&A.html (667 words)

	Choral Music In The Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		An the isorhythm is a periodic repetition or recurrence of rhythmic periods,often with changing melodic content in the tenor and other parts of 14th- and early 15th-century compositions, especially motets.
		Isorhythm had come to be linked with compositions written to celebrate festal and ceremonial occasions, the strength of that tradition maintained its use in the motet until the mid-15th century.
		The isorhythmic motet has usually been considered mainly a French phenomenon but it became a decisive technique that spread throughout Europe culminating in the motets of Dufay's 13 isorhythmic motets.
	wotan.liu.edu /~braxton/4dufay.html (297 words)

	ARS NOVA: A RESULT OF CULTURAL CHANGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A large contribution of the Ars Nova was the use of the isorhythm, a device that aided in rhythmic and melodic motivic development.
		The isorhythm was a repetition of rhythm and melody that occurred mostly in the tenor voice, which served as the foundation of music of the Middle Ages.
		Isorhythms were not the same as rhythmic modes.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL242/f98/evan.htm (1308 words)

	[No title]
		Isorhythm is a musical technique where complex phasing is played out between cycling patterns in different musical dimensions.
		In the medieval version, it was melodic sequences of one length vs. rhythmic sequences of another length (in terms of number of notes) with the effect of generating complex patterns that would eventually repeat.
		This is an pitch-rhtyhm isorhythm example, not a streaming illusion.
	ccrma.stanford.edu /courses/220a-fall-2006/docs/snd-lab2-hw2.html (552 words)

	Musical Forms - Motet
		Machaut's motets show a preference for French texts and use Isorhythm in the tenor and occasionally the upper parts as well; this became increasingly common in the late 14th century, as did rhythmic refinements.
		Many large-scale and complex 'mensuration motets' are found in English and French sources of the late 14th century and early 15th; Dufay, in his 14 isorhythmic and mensuration motets, achieved a magnificent synthesis of numerically constructed cantus firmus polyphony with the new techniques that hastened its decline.
		With the gradual abandonment of isorhythm after circa 1420, composers began to return to the liturgical and devotional contexts in which the motet had originated.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Arts/music/occidetalmusic/classical/musicalform/glossary/M/Motet.htm (767 words)

	Non Est
		As music’s concentration shifted from spiritual to secular and increasingly more of the art being created displayed concerns of politics and romance, innovations in improved precision of rhythm and pitch notation were being developed.
		As the name implies, isorhythm is the employment of a single rhythmic pattern repeated again and again by the tenor voice.
		Isorhythm lent coherence and unity to the motets of the age.
	www.radessays.com /viewpaper/100029/Non_Est.html (237 words)

	ORB -- Medieval Music Glossary
		a pattern of pitches (longer than a motive) in an isorhythmic voice which is repeated verbatim one or more times, though perhaps in different rhythms.
		Though early motets are sacred, by the end of the thirteenth century the newly-created texts of the top lines often deal with secular topics such as love.
		The talea may be augmented or diminished as long as the rhythmic proportions stay the same.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /~cyrus/ORB/orbgloss.htm (6352 words)

	Book Of Acts \| Mythic Potency
		The symbolic power (or mythic meaning) of Gothic and early Renaissance music is due to the use of Pythagorean ideas in tuning and constructing modes (scales) and to the use of the Cantus Firmus (or drone), and to the use of isorhythm.
		Think of the isorhythm in connection with the trigrams or hexagrams of the I Ching.
		Of course, the isorhythms of Gothic music are not always three beats or six beats, but sometimes four beats or seven beats or whatever.
	members.aol.com /Pythagoras9/mythpote.htm (3908 words)

	Isorhythm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The modern musical innovation of integral serialism in the classes of Olivier Messiaen sprang from a study of the 12 tone compositions of Anton Webern and the isothythmic organization within motets of Guillaume de Machaut.
		Here Of A Sunday Morning WBAI 99.5 FM: Isorhythm
		This page was last modified 21:10, 14 December 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Isorhythm (299 words)

	MUH 3211 2nd Examination
		The color in an isorhythmic motet is always a distinctly recognizable theme.
		Isorhythm is a form-generating device which is obvious to the ear.
		Isorhythm was a form not generally followed by Italian Ars Nova composers
	nersp.nerdc.ufl.edu /~bassoon/MUH3211/exam2.html (1001 words)

	Precompositional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Precompositional decisions may also include which key, scale, musical form, style, genre, or idiom in which to write, to use techniques such as the twelve tone technique, serialism, or not to use a system at all.
		Other examples may include isorhythm, ostinato, passacaglia, chaconne, rhythms, or chord progression.
		Precompositional decisions do not necessarily, and almost always do not, preclude compositional decisions, and may actually allow the initial consideration of the choices made.
	www.gogoglo.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/p/pr/precompositional.html (206 words)

	MU111: Web CD5 Part 3
		Even more intriguing, the tenor voice was composed using a technique called isorhythm: the melody is based on a repeated rhythmic pattern and on a pattern of pitch repetitions.
		Since they don't coincide (the rhythm starts to repeat before all the pitches are used up), such repetitions take a lot of practice to hear.
		For now, it's enough to understand that isorhythm represents the height of medieval musical artifice and intellectual ingenuity.
	www.colby.edu /music/saunders/MU111/MU111WebCD5-3.html (406 words)

	Medieval Music: Guillaume de Machaut (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But he is best known for his secular music and was very influential on Chaucer.
		Machaut is known for his use of pan-isorhythm -- isorhythm appearing in all parts -- and his through-composed monophonic lais.
		Though the movements are not all unified by any particular theme, each movement is based on the appropriate chant for that part of the Mass, and Machaut uses isorhythm in each.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/medieval/machaut.html (242 words)

	Music History Survey: Middle Ages and Renaissance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(not to be confused with isorhythm!), or with evenly spaced syllables, with or without an implied meter.
		Isorhythm was a manifestation of this, as was the new, more logical notational system.
		Know what the Roman de Fauvel was, when it came about, and why it is important for music historians (don't worry about remembering exactly what the letters F-A-U-V-E-L stand for).
	gozips.uakron.edu /~brooks2/MR2.htm (2791 words)

	Scissor Bump (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(Isorhythm is where one crosses a repeating melodic pattern with a repeating rhythmic pattern of different legnths...
		...say the melodic pattern has 3 tones and the rhythmic pattern consists of 4 moments, an isorhythm would come out like this:
		I took this concept and applied it by the measure instead of
	www.brickhaus.com /deepdish/scissor_bump--compositions.htm (358 words)

	Notational Innovations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For example, the pitches (talea) of the motet being ten notes and the rhythmic pattern (color) being repeated only six times.
		The motets of Philippe de Vitry are composed (although not entirely) using Isorhythm and he is given a great amount of credit with its instigation.
		Coloration is the process of changing rhythm so that the time of the note values themselves are affected.
	axe.acadiau.ca /~063608m/theory.htm (600 words)

	The Ars Nova
		· Isorhythm: a line of music has rhythmic component and melodic component: in isorhythm there are different numbers of elements (e.g.
		· Isorhythm was an experiment demonstrating the new fascination with rhythm
		· In practice, isorhythm was used in motet tenors.
	www.uwsp.edu /music/pholland/326/ars_nova.htm (610 words)

	rhythm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ISORHYTHM - a medieval composition technique that uses a repeated rhythmic pattern (talea) and a repeated melodic pattern (color) which do not need to coincide.
		For instance, the melody may be longer than the rhythm or vice versa.
		As in isorhythm, pitch and time are treated independently - leads to TOTAL or INTEGRAL SERIALISM in which all parameters of music are determined by a series.
	iaml.ffa.ucalgary.ca /mutc/303/week5-6/week5-6.htm (310 words)

	Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) - famous Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377) Classics hit collection and Guillaume de ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Machaut's best known composition is his Messe de Notre Dame, Mass of Our Lady, an early example of a cyclic setting of the liturgical text, in which the sections are musically related.
		His Hoquetus David makes similar use of the technique of isorhythm, in which a given basic sequence of notes, derived normally from plainchant, is divided into a repeated rhythmic pattern.
		The hocket referred to in the title is a musical hiccough, a popular technical device of the time, in which the musical line is interrupted by sudden rests.
	www.naxos.com /composerinfo/648.htm (319 words)

	The Other Ars Nova
		There is a distinct stratification of voice parts, and frequent texting of four semibreves to a breve.
		It is an isorhythmic motet with a very clear alternating rhythmic patterns (or Talea) in the tenor which alternate ten times each.
		It is interesting to note that this isorhythmic motet uses each talea five times in alteration for a total of ten occurrences of a consistently structured rhythmic scheme
	homepages.nyu.edu /~dnb208/arsnova.htm (2850 words)

	a cappella: "In the style of the chapel" or "In the church"
		She became famous for her prophetic powers and revelations.
		isorhythm: Repetition in a voice part of an extended pattern of durations throughout a section or composition.
		In the motet, theorists called the repeating series of pitches in the tenor the color, and the long rhythmic unit the talea.
	www.uh.edu /~tkoozin/projects/ogan/glosspage.html (1673 words)

	Matobelu Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Verses stands for inverses and reverses as well as the formal structure.
		The individual instruments are composed in isorhythm while expanding harmonically and in register.
		The celebrated works for piano arranged for wind quintet.
	home.earthlink.net /~matobelumusic/id4.html (202 words)

	Literature and Styles in Music I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Isorhythm used as a tool of organization for long pieces
		Abstract quality of concealed formal organization is typical of Medieval approach
		Some movements in motet style (i.e., freely polyphonic, with isorhythmic organization of tenor part)
	www.uwgb.edu /ogradyt/ls1/14thcent.htm (302 words)

	Moot Thoughts & Musings: speaking from the cloud that is my brain
		The students always ask the questions that expose your deepest weakness.
		Here I am telling them one thing, totally confusing them, and then someone says, 'but the book says this.' I look at the book, it dawns on me that there was this whole macro aspect to isorhythm that I didn't realize, and what I had been saying for about the previous ten minutes was w-r-o-n-g.
		So the only thing I could do was realize I was wrong, say that I was wrong, explain it again right, hope I haven't totally confused them, and turn on the cd player, wh.
	covblogs.com /diber/archives/000347.html (703 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)