MUSIC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Busta Rhymes, Pope Gregory I, Comtessa De Dia
10 Oct 2016
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Chapter 4 the middle ages to early polyphony. Early middle ages = 400 to 1000 a. d. Later middle ages = 1000 to 1400 a. d. Countries as we know them did not exist. Early in the middle ages the class system was based on feudalism kings, queens, nobles, and servants. Later in the middle ages, villages were formed with a more centralized economic system involving trade and commerce. A middle class arose in the later middle ages: bankers, traders, merchants, shippers. Most people lived in poverty and spent their lives working in miserable conditions. Wars were frequent and all serfs (servants) were expected to fight them when the ruling nobleman called upon them. Diseases and infections were often fatal without antibiotics, vaccines, or sterile procedures. The spread of christianity increased the availability of learning: monks kept literature and scholarship alive, education became more widespread, universities sprang up.
