Chapter 4
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- Chapter 4 - The Middle Ages
- Adjectives
- Arts flourished, encouraged and paid for by the church. Medieval arts concentrated at the cathedral.
- Unifying
- Vocal, smooth and flowing melodies.
- Irregular phrase lengths and lively rhythms.
- Rise of polyphony and secular music.
- Dates
- Earliest = 8th or 9th century.
- (400-1400)
- Earliest = 8th or 9th century.
- Feudalism
- the dominant social system in medieval Europe
- FRENCH AND ITALIAN STYLES MERGE DUE TO PAPACY, TWO POPES
- the dominant social system in medieval Europe
- Plainchant (Gregorian)
- Vocal, unison, free rhythm, modes, syllabic and melismatic, monophonic, can be simple or elaborate.
- Vocal music for churhc.
- Secular V Liturgical (sacred)
- Secular song was nonreligious music based on topics of love or politics
- Modes
- Important in plainchant. 4 MAIN MODES:
- D-mode (Dorian) in many folk songs.
- E-mode (Phrygian)
- F and G-mode
- Important in plainchant. 4 MAIN MODES:
- Beatriz de Dia
- A female troubadour.
- Lute
- Plucked stringed instrument with a long neck.
- Troubadors
- Gave rise to secular song in the 12th century. Poet-musicians, topics of love, duty, friendship, ceremony, courtly love, idealized women. (aristocratic courts in FR)
- Trouveres
- Epic poet FR 11-14th
- Guillaume de Machaut
- Polyphonic and secular music (FR) Subtle and intense, small motives, fluid duple and triple meters, chromatic notes.
- Rondeau
- Caccia
- Play on words, means hunt and the songs describe hunting scenes, also means round in which the voices sin the same music but begin at different times. Melody chases itself.
- Counterpoint/ Contrapuntal/ Polyphonic
- Rise in the 10th century. Mostly composed in Paris (ND) for major feasts of the Church year. (France and Italy forefront)
- Leoninus and Perotinus composed Magnus Liber Organi.
- Rise in the 10th century. Mostly composed in Paris (ND) for major feasts of the Church year. (France and Italy forefront)
- Adjectives
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