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TRIP TO THE PAST

________MEDIEVAL MUSIC________

INDEX

1. CONTEXT OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC2. RELIGIOUS MUSIC 3. SECULAR MUSIC 4. INSTRUMENTS OF MEDIEVAL MUSIC 5. SPANISH MEDIEVAL MUSIC

CONTEXT OF MEDIeVAL MUSIC

  • Medieval begins in the V century and ends in the XV century.
  • It is divided into two periods: - Early Middle Ages - Late Middle Ages
  • It's based in Theocentrism (God is the center of the world)
  • In the Middle Ages were created: universities, cathedrals, monasteries, latin and romance language and secular and religious muisc.

religious music

GREGORIAN CHANT

MUSICAL NOTATION

MAIN DRIVER

  • The funcion was to praise God
  • The Language used was Latin
  • The composers were anonymous
  • The rythm was free and it flowed with the text
  • The character was peacful and relaxing
  • This chant was sung a capella
  • It was composed by a monophonic texture

Neumes

  • They indicated if the melody was ascendant or descendant

Pope Gregory

Square notation

  • Unified and collected Gregorian Chant
  • They indicate the pitch of the sound

Guido d'Arezzo

  • He named he musical notes
  • He also invented the Tetragram

FEATURES

musicians

Secular music

Trobadours

Trobadours were culted and they were composers and poets

Features

Minstrels or jongleurs

  • Was created to enjoy and dance in vernacular lenguages so that people would understand it.
  • The subject was courty love, war and chivarly
  • The texture was monophony and they accompanied it with instruments to make it more fun.
  • The rythm was marked and regular, flows with the text.
  • Composers of secular music were very famous.

Were just performers, playing songs composed by troubadours. They were musicians who travelled to entretain people

Trobairitz

They were women trobadours

Goliards

They were students and vagabonds who wrote their songs in Latin. Some of their songs are complied in a book called Carmina Burana

INSTRUMENTS

string

percussion

Saltery

Cymbals

Lute

Harp

Castanets

Tambourine

Rebec

INSTRUMENTS

luthier

wind

Serpent

Shawn

Recorder

Trumpet

Portative organ

Cornett

spanish MEDIeVAL MUSIC

(Spain was divided into two parts)

Al-andalus

Christian Kingdom

  • SECULAR MUSIC
  • SECULAR MUSIC

Moorish chant

Cantigas

Nawba Moaxaja Zejel

Poetic-musical In Galician-Portuguese Influenced by trobadours

  • RELIGIOUS MUSIC
  • RELIGIOUS MUSIC

Mozarb chant

Gregorian chant