Kevin Li, Computer Science, 2020
I chose this video to represent the piece Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure by Machaut. The video shows several different people performing different tasks to create the Holiday Market at Union Square—building, painting, delivering, and selling goods. This parallels the polyphonous nature of the musical piece, in which the male and female parts sing different melodies, but they come together to create a cohesive whole. Just as the workers at Union Square build on each other’s work in creating the final product, as painters build on the structures others built, and shopkeepers sell in the booths that have been prepared, the male and female parts in Rose, Liz, Printemps, Verdure build on top of each other to create a cohesively whole musical piece.
Music Humanities Spring 2020 Section 13 Class Blog 