MUS 2331 Study Guide - Stollen, Transverse Flute, Oboe
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Chapter 4: song and dance in the middle ages. Versus: sacred and attached to liturgy that usually rhymed. Conductus: (12th c) serious song that had a rhyming, rhythmical text. Goliard songs: (late 10th-13th c) on religious and moral themes that were usually satires of love, spring, eating, drinking, and other pleasures. Because there was a large illiterate population during the mideueval era (who could not write down their songs), much of their vernacular poetry/songs are lost including. The epic (a long heroic narrative) did survive. In the british isles, lcal royalty maintained bards and awarded them with gifts. They sang epic, elegies, and eulogies about famous men and recited sagas at social funcitions (banquets), and accompanied themselves on the hard or fiddle. The laws of hywel dda (welsh manuscripts) state that around the 10th there were 2 types of bards: Those who were permanent members of the king"s house hold (bardd teulu)
