1. 300 – 1300

2. Medieval or Middle Ages: 300 – 1300 Most music was vocal: Sacred – religious Secular – non-religious (worldly)

3. Popular or Folk Performed by traveling musicians who sang and played string or percussion instruments.

4. Small Harps Lutes Viols (Ancestor to modern guitar)

5. Drums Cymbals Bells

6. Flutes/Recorder Bagpipes

7. Influence of the Roman Catholic Church Through 1150, mostly monophonic, single melody by one person or group

8. Singers were almost always men. Music of Hildegard was first to be sung by women. Priests would sing prayers on various notes, this was called chant.

9. First organized musical notation. Mostly square, white notes Allowed singers to learn many more chants.

11. Eventually, horizontal lines were added to clearly show how far apart the neumes were. Neumes = Notes Lines = Staff

12. 900 – 1200 Added a second melody to chant Usually apart by a 4 th or 5 th

13. Hildegard von BingenGuillaume de Machaut

14. John DunstableGuillaume Dufay

15. Charlemagne: 742 to 814

16. Pope crowned Charlemagne the Holy Roman Emperor: Dec. 25, 800

17. Carcassonne: A Medieval Castle

18. Medieval Universities

19. Oxford University – 12 th century

20. Late Medieval Town Dwelling