Modal counterpoint project second semester
Working towards a little concert program with motets and instrumental (organ) pieces around:
The holy week
- maundy thursday (last supper and the start of the eucharist)
- good friday (crucifxion)
- holy saturday (Jesus descends in the realm of the dead to preach the gospel)
- easter sunday (the resurrection)
and
- ascension day
- pentecost
Your task:
Choose a (short) text from the new testament in Latin (the vulgate)
Think about the planning and design of your work, such as:
- Number of parts/voices
- The mode(s)/colour(s) you are going to choose
- The tactus and it's subdivisions (prolatio) maybe changing dure the piece?
- Your starting point: c.f.-based? If so, c.f. in long notes?, or motives coming from c.f. ?
- The texture: will there be homophony? If so, how, where and with which part of the text? Voice pairs?
- Cadential formulas?
- Contrapuntal approach: imitative? canon techniques?
- Which parts of the text invite you to do some word painting?
Sources to use:
www.vulgate.org (with english translation)
www.gregoriana.sk (Graduale Romanum and Graduale Triplex)
https://sanctamissa.org (gregorian chant following the liturgical year)
