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GREGORIAN CHANT AND MEDIEVAL POLYPHONY
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This seminar will examine how, when, where, and why Gregorian chant and polyphony were sung in the Middle Ages. Both discussion and practical experience of singing psalms, antiphons, early polyphony, and other forms will structure the basic contents of the seminar. Issues to be addressed will include musical notation, descriptions of medieval music by contemporary witnesses, the variety of styles to be discovered in the music, and the various ways it reflects medieval philosophy, religion, and aesthetics. The ways in which this musical culture might fit into secondary musical, theological, and historical education will also be discussed.
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Alexander Blachly, the 1992 recipient of the Noah Greenberg Award given by the American Musicological Society to stimulate historically aware performances and the study of historical performing practices, has been active in early music as both performer and scholar since 1972. He earned his postgraduate degrees in musicology from Columbia University and is currently professor of music and director of choral music at the University of Notre Dame, where he directs the University of Notre Dame Chorale and Chamber Orchestra. Calvin Bower has been working for almost 40 years with sacred music of the Middle Ages, both as a historian and as a performer. He has gained important insights into musical tradition through his translations of Medieval and Renaissance Latin musical theory, and has been able to put those insights into practice in the Schola musicorum of Notre Dame and in the Schola Antiqua of Chicago, of which he is the musical director. Prof. Bower, who earned his postgraduate degrees at George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University, is director of undergraduate studies in the Medieval Institute.
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