MUSI 100 Lecture 7: Music and culture Roman, Greek, medieval and renassiance
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Sacred music: for religious functions: often written for performance in a place of worships, ex. Secular music: for non-religious events: often written for performance in a concert hall, ex. Latin: the work: used as a title and/or organizing element of the composers output, beethoven wrote many string quartets, they are organized under 3 opus numbers based on the time of the composition. Timeline: rome and middle ages: 508 bc-27 bc roman republic (j. caesar assassinated 44 bc, 27 bc- 476 ad roman empire (divided by end of 3rd cen) (constantine adopted christianity in. 3rd cen) fall of the roman empire: 476-1450 middle ages (span nearly 1000 years, 400-600 early christian period, 600-850 gregorian chant, 850-1150 development of polyphony, 1150-1450 gothic period. Middle (dark) ages: early middle ages (500-1000) formerly called dark ages was a period of development rather than decline.
