The middle ages years
476-1450
first 500 years
the dark ages
Christianity
it held lots of power with the king
rise of the monasteries
most of the music is religious or sacred because of the censorship of the
patronage
are the people of the church.
Hildegarde of Bingen
first woman conductor
morality play
play on good vs evil
who preserved the learning of the world?
monks
who rose in political power, and lived like the king?
the pope
Liturgy
a pattern of prayer or worship
Pope Gregory
He reorganized the Catholic liturgy, and set the order of religious services. He also categorized chant.
Pope Gregory
Created the different clefs,
treble clef
base clef
neumatic
having about one to six NOTES sung to each syllable of text.
melismatic
many notes per syllable
neumes
little ascending and descending symbols used for notation of music.
modes
scale patterns
Mass
a public sequence of prayers constituting the Christian catholic
Proper part
the text in a mass that varies day to day
Ordinary part
the text that remains the same in a mass
the Kyrie
is the only part of the mass in Greek
Latin
what language is the mass in?
Hildegard of Bingen wrote?
poetic music text, Alleluia, O Virga mediatrix
Organum famous writer
Leonin
The first harmony in middle age sacred music
organum
motet
new texts for previous organums
the high middle ages years
1,000 and on
Leonin wrote
Gaude Maria virgo
polyphonic
organum is what form
hocket
A single melody is shared between two voices such that alternates one voice sounds while the other rests sounds like a hick up,
Perotin
He revised Leonin's organums by adding 3 or 4 voices
organums notes are
extremely long
the triple meter
the trinity- father, song and holy spirit
the Gregorian chant was organized by
pope Gregory
pope Gregory reigned
590-604 AD
Gregorian chant characteristics 1
monophonic texture
Gregorian chant characteristics 2
unaccented
Gregorian chant characteristics 3
free verse
Gregorian chant characteristics 4
conjunct
syllabic
one note to each syllable
Age of knighthood
knights worshiped their lady
university singers who sung secular music of the middle ages
Goliards
wine, love, beauty of springtime, cruelty of fate
Goliards sung about
traveling or wandering musicians
Jongleurs, Troveres, troubadours, minnesingers
Jongleurs
medieval wandering entertainers who played instruments, sang and danced, juggled, and performed plays
Troveres
Northern France artists
Troubadours
south France artists
Minnesingers
Germany
word writing in the middle age secular music
text didn't always match the sound of the music
English Round
polyphonic voices in succession of a piece: row row
Ars Nova
new art
Chanson
written about french courtly love, means song
Machaut
wrote motet and a chanson
Machaut lived
1300-1377
secular and sacred
Machaut made what kind of music?
Machaut wrote his text in
Rondeau form
Rondeau Form
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