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Title: 13. Secular Music in the Middle Ages


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13. Secular Music in the Middle Ages
  • Medieval Minstrels
  • Wandering minstrels
  • Men Goliards, jongleurs
  • Women trobairitz, jongleuresses
  • Aristocratic artists
  • France troubadours (south) and trouvères
    (north)
  • Germany Minnesingers
  • Secular music in courts
  • Secular music in cities
  • Idealized love and chivalry
  • Secular songs sung monophonically, with
    improvised accompaniment

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Raimbaut de Vaqueiras and the Trouvère Tradition
  • Southern French secular composer (c.1155-1207)
  • Musician at the court of the marquis of
    Montferrat (northwest Italy)
  • Knighted for bravery in battle
  • Joined in the Fourth Crusade to the Holy Land
  • Probably died in battle alongside his patron

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Raimbaut de Vaqueiras Kalenda maya
  • Late-13th-century estampie (troubadour dance
    song)
  • Set to a strophic poem
  • Instrumental portion performed on rebec, pipe,
    guitar, nakers, hand drum
  • Middle Eastern influence evident in the work
  • Improvisation
  • instruments

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Guillaume de Machaut (c. 13001377)
  • French composer
  • Premier composer of Ars nova
  • Cleric and courtier
  • Motets, chansons, polyphonic Mass Ordinary
  • Poet
  • Fixed text forms rondeau, ballade, virelai

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Early Instrumental Music
Vielle
Mandolin
Lute
6
Early Instrumental Music
Dulcimer
Psaltery
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Medieval Organs
  • Large instruments
  • Small instruments (portative, positive)
  • Use of authentic instruments in recordings

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