Medieval Music Mateo
Notation
The chant
Melismatic chant: When there are passages with many notes for a single syllable.
http://www.sondames.org/Audio/edadmedia/melismatico.mp3
neumatic chant: One syllable is sung with several notes (usually 3 or 4 per syllable).
Syllabic chant: One note for each syllable
an old tipe of staff (tetragram)
square notation
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/word/music3.htm
Secular music
Troubadour
Adam de la Halle
The most famous ever
to 1237-1286
inventor of the Motet
Instruments
secular music
percussion
the tambourine
the triangle
the drum
string
the rebec
the harp
the Hurdy-gurdy
http://infinitygeste.tumblr.com/post/15796512486/hurdy-gurdy-man
wind
the shawn
http://www.blasende-instrumente.net/pages/en/instruments/descant-shawms.php?lang=EN
the pipe
the flute
In religious music instruments were prohibited
Texture
polyphony
after 11th century
organum
paralel / florid
religious
monophony
before 11th century
religious music
Only men could sing
Two principal composers
Leonin
Perotin
Gregorian chant
Itroduction
Chronology
From V century to the XV century
Religion
church/ cristianism/ islam
Society
feudalism
http://socialsstudies8.weebly.com/the-feudal-pyramid.html
