MedievalMusic

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MedievalMusic
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Music

• Mostly vocal music in sacred (religious/holy)
  music
• Instruments were not allowed in church
• Read pg. 261-262
• Instruments used in Secular (of the world) music

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Gregorian Chant

• Also called Plainchant, plainsong
• Folk music from Hebrew, Greek
• Came from Pope Gregory (Story)
• Qualities
• Simple
• Monophonic one sound
• Unmeasured rhythm
• Narrow pitch range

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Gregorian Chant cont

• Syllabiceach syllable given a note
• Melismaticeach syllable spread over several
  notes
• Sung in Latin

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The Mass Ordinary

• Kyrie
• Gloria
• Credo
• Sanctus
• Agnus Dei

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Hildegard von Bingen

• 1098-1179
• Women Writer
• First composer with biography
• Produced Musical plays
• 10th Child of noble family (tithe)
• Became Nun
• Play Sample

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Early Polyphony Organum

• between 700 and 900 AD, a second melodic line
  organumwas added to the Gregorian Chant
• Later, sometime before 1200, melodies developed
  into real polyphony, that is, multiple layers of
  sound

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Chansons de toile

• songs of work or spinning songs
• Name came from the spinning of yarn for weaving
• Tell of tragedy, romance, love
• Sometimes set to tunes of well-known songs
• Hildegard von Bingen
• Women Troubadours
• Songs in the vernacular

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Secular Music

• Sumer is icumen in
• Earliest English Round
• Subject matter mostly love
• Strophicseveral stanzas sung to the same melody
• Musical instruments
• Lyre, harp, and a type of violin/fiddle, various
  types of woodwind instruments, and bagpipes
• Organ also became more popular

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• Sound
• Harmony
• Melody
• Rhythm
• Growth