Music 1710F/G Lecture Notes - Medieval Music, Carl Dahlhaus, Middle Ages
6 Feb 2013
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History and aesthetics exist in a reciprocal relation to one another. The aesthetic premises that might sustain the writing of music history are themselves historical. Medieval era happens around the time of the fall of the roman empire. End of hundred years" war/fall of constantinople: 1453 ce. Stereotypes of the middle ages medieval music. Allan-a-dale robin hood"s minstrel, merry man . The renaissance invented the middle ages in order to define itself; the. Enlightenment perpetuated them in order to admire itself; and the romantics revived them in order to escape from themselves. The middle ages" thus constitute one of the most prevalent cultural myths of the modern world. (source: brian stock, listening for the text: on the uses of the. Past [philadelphia: johns hopkins university press, 1990], 69) Musica humana (music of the bodily humours) mathematical relationships your body has. Tension between relationship between logic and reasoning, and higher power.
