Medieval Review Make a timeline, , that includes POLITICS: Charlemagne, Battle of Hastings, plague ARCHITECTURE: Romanesque (approx.), Gothic start MUSIC: codification of CHANT, STAFF, NOTATION OF RHYTHM, ARS NOVA
Hildegard ROMANESQUE STAFF 1000 CHANT standardized RHYTHM NOTATION 1250 Rhythmic modes Perotin Viderunt Omnes 1200 ARS NOVA 1300 improvised organum GOTHIC (1150) CHARLEMAGNE MONASTERIES UNIVERSITY & CATHEDRAL 1066 Battle of Hastings Culture of The Book PLAGUE, SCHISM E/W Schism FEUDALISM Decline of Church as political power PERSPECTIVE (GIOTTO) dematerialization continues
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Music Identifications CHANT HILDEGARD PEROTIN ARS NOVA Large intervals this particular recording: women singing duple subdivision jumble of texts in this example (a motet) monophony Early Medieval monastic life triple subdivision (florid organum) extreme melisma POLYPHONY! Viderunt omnes
Machaut must go on, but not on the next test Machaut – from Messe de Notre Dame Lush, 4-part texture Harmonies unusual to our ear – pre-tonal
Who is depicted: Doing what: And that reflects the: That we associate with: When: The 4 evangelists Writing the Gospel Culture of the Book monasteries Medieval p. 132 Gospel Book of Charlemagne
see text p. 146 Name: style: elements: St. Sernin Romanesque - round arches - a few narrow windows - heavy
FEUDALISM WHAT: DEPICTS: WHEN: POLITICAL/SOCIAL ORGANIZATION: Bayeux Tapestry Battle of Hastings 1066 p
Style: starts: who: elements of style: Pointed arches Stained glass Flying buttresses ribbed vaulting Verticality Gothic 1150 Abbot Suger p
Who is depicted: Doing what: And that reflects the: That we associate with: When: St. Matthew Writing the Gospel Culture of the Book monasteries Medieval