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1 Music in the Middle Ages
A.D.

2 Socially Towns are growing Social classes Nobility Peasants Clergy

3 Music Found only in the church
Women were not allowed to sing except in convents Hardly any instrumental pieces Organ was most popular instrument

4 Gregorian Chant Official music of the Roman Catholic church
Music in Latin No exact rhythm Named after Pope Gregory I Music passed on through oral tradition Composers mostly unknown Alleluia: Vidimus stellam (We Have Seen His Star) O successores (You successors) – Hildegard von Bingen

5 Secular Music 12th and 13th centuries (starting 1100’s) Troubadours
Minstrels Estampie Music example

6 Polyphony Polyphony – two melodies simultaneously
Started around A.D. Was taught at the School of Notre Dame in Paris Leonin Perotin Alleluia: Nativitas (The Birth) Composers develop the first rhythmic notation system

7 14th Century (1300’s) Bubonic plague killed 25% of Europe’s population
Authority of the church is diminishing Secular music becoming more popular Music notation system being used New instruments Sackbut (early trombone) Shawm (early oboe)

8 Famous Composers Francesco Landini (?-1397)
Italian Blind Organist Poet Scholar Invented the bandura Guillaume Machaut ( ) French Priest Court official for royal families Poet/musician Best known composition: Notre Dame Mass

9 Mass Ordinary Sung in church on a daily basis In Latin
Consists of five prayers Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei Added instruments and polyphony to the mass ordinary starting in the 1300’s

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