Реферат: Adam De La Halle And Ars Antiqua

century as Ars Antiqua. This was the time period when music started to become

more formal. In this time period, musical plays were just becoming popular and

in 1283 one of the first operas was performed.

Most of the music of the Ars Antiqua time period is anonymous. Two important

figures stand out among the anonymity. P?rotin, who became famous in the late

12th century, composed the earliest known music for four voices. Franco of

Cologne, who flourished in the middle of the 13th century, was a theorist who

organized a new, more precise system of rhythmic notation, the direct ancestor

of modern notation.

The most important style of music to originate in the Ars Antiqua is the motet,

which retained its popularity for centuries. The essence of this style of music

is the simultaneous presentation of more than one text. It originated with the

addition of a new text to the upper voices of a sacred polyphonic composition.

The lower, slower moving voices retained the original text.

Ars Antiqua was the time period when music as we know it was just beginning.

Composers were considered innovators because they invented a great deal of what

is used in modern music (for example harmony and modern notation). The music we

listen to today is comprised of everything these composers created. Without this

great musical minds, music today would be significantly different.