MUSC 100 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hildegard Of Bingen, Pope Gregory I, Gregorian Chant
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A thousand years of european history: 450-1450, early: a time migrations, upheavals, and wars, romanesque churches and monasteries; gothic cathedrals; crusades to recover the holy city from. Later: a period of cultural growth the muslims. Important musicians were priests: women were not allowed to sing in church, but did make music in converts, only sacred music was notated. Few medieval instruments have survived: musical manuscripts did not indicate tempo, dynamics,23 or rhythm. Flexible rhythm: without meter and sense of beat: named for pope gregory i (r. 590-604, notation developed over several centuries. The church modes: basic scales, consisting of several tones, comprised of unique whole and half-step patterns. Elements of music: pitch, dynamics, timbre, rhythm, meter, melody, harmony, key, texture. Hildegard von bingen: note: gregorian chant, extended range of melody. Secular music in the middle ages: composed by french nobles who were poet- musicians, troubadours (southern french, trouveres (northern france, performed by jongleurs (traveling minstrels)
