Manuale di Canto Fermo
Michele Chiaramida
Topics
- Canto Fermo, Gregorian Chant
- Renaissance Music
- Church, Salmody, Renaissance Music Theory
What do you need this book for?
- Understanding Plainchant
- Learning to read Renaissance square notation of Plainchant
- Discovering the performance practice of Plainchant
Description
How was Gregorian chant sung during the Renaissance? The Council of Trent initiated a great revolution, and many liturgical books were reformed.
Chant played a very important role in the liturgy, and plainchant (Canto Fermo) was the foundation for the composition of many polyphonic motets!
Understanding plainchant, that is, the way Gregorian chant was sung during the Renaissance, is not limited to plainchant itself, but it allows you to understand modality in polyphony, the reasoning behind certain compositional structures, and how a Renaissance composer conceived the individual melodies that together created polyphony!
