Music 1711F/G Lecture Notes - Roman De Fauvel, Intabulation, Rebec
7 Feb 2013
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Feb 6 music of the 14th century: instrumental music. Difficult to say whether purely "instrumental" music existed on its own for most of the middle ages. Instruments usually: doubled vocal lines, played with singers, accompanied or substituted for particular vocal lines in motets, etc. The mysterious power of purely instrumental music (first seen with. Greeks /romans) not totally welcomed in the church. Music in medieval era always had a purpose ornamentation of an event, worship. Music which does not produce anything is questionable in its moral qualities. However, a lot of church iconography (carvings, pictures etc. ) show instrumentalists accompanying singers in church (vielles, rebecs, lutes, bells, trumpets, etc. ) First: late 13th century untexted hocket passages in the bamberg codex. Second: around 1320, several folios of intabulation for motetes in the. Roman de fauvel are found in the robertsbridge cosex. Intabulation: keyboard/stringed instrument reduction of a vocal work.
