MUS111H1 Lecture Notes - Bassoon, Die Forelle, String Instrument
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Economics and the role of the musician in society. Many early professional musicians were dependent on the church or the court for their livelihoods. Music has great importance and musician does not (opposite of music industry today) troubadours/trouveres: lyrie poets or poet musicians of france in 12th and 13th centuries. Poets working in the south of france, writing in provencal, are generally termed. Troubadours ; those of the north, writing in french, are called trouveres : wrote poetry, entertainers, sung out (high class, usually wrote about the kings, we have the poetry but not the music jongleurs: a medieval entertainer, sometimes a minstrel. The temr covers a range of entertainers and storytellers low status: buskers jungle. But through the renaissance, we see major changes in society and the role in musicians Middle class and leisure time = people began to learn. Printing music can now be printed and shared. Example: hasse (1699-1783), se mai piu sara geloso, cleofide (1731)
