In this video you will get some basic information about the historical development of polyphony in Western music history. You will also become acquainted with a new form of noting music: the modal notation.

Previously you explored how liturgical chant was noted down, starting from the late Carolingian times until the crucial transition from the neumes without lines to square notation. Let us now address the polyphony of the 12th and 13th centuries. A good example is the so-called Notre Dame school. The name stands for a group of musicians active in Paris between about 1150 and about 1250. They composed a large number of polyphonic settings of liturgical music.

The Ensemble Gilles Binchois under the direction of Dominique Vellard sings the monophonic Gradual Benedicta et Venerabilis. The video also presents two polyphonic clausulae Go and the motet O Maria mater pia from the manuscript Firenze, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.1, fol. 11r, 165r and 393r–v that are derived from the monophonic Gradual.

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