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MUSIC IN THE MIDDLE AGES

David Henández Moreno 3ºA

RELIGIOUS MUSIC

II Century

Conception of an universal Church

Influence of the music

Construction of great churches

Need of trained choirs

Gregory the Great (Pope Gregory I) estabilish Medieval music art

Music that provided satisfaction/ensured harmony of spirit and unify Christendom

Gregorian chant

Pope Gregory the Great

SECULAR MUSIC

At the same time...

Ordinary people wanted a different kind of music

Music inspired by natural emotion (topics like: love, freedom, grace, etc...

Charlemagne collected the heroic songs/sagas from the germans

English ministrels, Spanish trobadores, trobadours in France and german minnesingers spread secular music

MEDIEVAL HARP

·Both religious and secular music·Three parts: column, harmonic curve and soundboard·Strings made of wire or gut·Popular in Ireland, England, Scotland, Scandinavia and Wales

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VOCABULARY

  • Secular
  • Ecclesiastical
  • Sagas
  • Embodied
  • Minnesingers
  • Minstrels
  • Liturgical
  • Ars Antiqua
  • Monophonic
  • Mass