MUSIC 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hildegard Of Bingen, Stained Glass, Acute Accent
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Hildegard von bingen add to previous notes (lecture 5) Last day: monophonic, mostly religious music, secular music did appear during this time, but almost none of it survived, polyphony rose as an embellishment of liturgical chant in the 11th c. Medieval musical style: motets: religious pieces w/ added texts, sometimes in multiple languages, sometimes secular as well, will be introduced to this more next wednesday, take a church piece (religious) and add music on top of it. A lot of the time, secular stuff added on top sounds odd. Genres include: gregorian chant/plainsong/plainchant, vernacular song (songs in local language) secular. Motets: incorporated church and nonchurch music: polyphonic versions of both these genres appear in the later middle ages. Fri. sept. 19, 2014: very little instrumental music survived. In text: take a look at the historical timeline set against a musical timeline good review (: Composers of these were troubadours, laudesi (names varied, see previous notes for other examples)
