MUS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Guillaume De Machaut, Bernart De Ventadorn, Pope Gregory I
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The middle ages: social classes: peasant , noble, clergy, multiple wars, black death, bewulf and the canterbury tales, religious crusades. Medieval art: simplistic, color but little detail. Gregorian chant (plainchant: sung melodies with sacred latin texts, texture: monophonic, tonality: modes, services: divine office and mass, pope gregory i (c. 540-604, clai(cid:373)ed to i(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:374)t (cid:858)plai(cid:374)(cid:272)ha(cid:374)t(cid:859) In paradisum: sung during procession to graveyard. Hildegard of bingen (1098-1179: nun (abbess, writer, medicine, science, natural history, poetry, received religious visions, first notable woman composer, ex: columba aspexit, plainchant, drone (sung note in background, ex: ordo virtutum (play of the virtues, morality play. Secular music of the middle ages: age of chivalry, c. (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s-(cid:1005)(cid:1006)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)(cid:859)s, court songs by nobility, troubadours, tourveres. Jongleurs: popular musicians: bernart de ventadorn, la dousa vota. Medieval instruments: lute, flute, songs of want, forbidden love (class) Notre dame school: paris, france, c. 1160-1250, leonin (1150-1201, perotin (1200-1225, sederunt principles, measured rhythm.
