Compare the “Kyrie” sections of Machaut’s Messe des Nostre Dame and Palestrina’s MissaPapaeMarcelli. Consider
meter, texture, and harmony
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER: Machaut: triple meter; dense texture, free counterpoint, slower moving lower voices; open chords and points
of crunching dissonance. Palestrina: duple meter; more open texture, especially at beginnings of each section,
imitative polyphony; tradic harmony, dissonance carefully resolved.
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