Music and music education in ancient history and middle ages
Middle Ages Music
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Middle Ages Music
By Brittany Mussmann
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History• Sacred Music- Started with Gregorian
Chant, a Jewish and Byzantine religious chant
• Developed into Polyphonic music called Organum
• Then went to Secular Music• Music was performed in unison• Notes were usually same length and song
or played in the key of C (Monophonic)
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Influenced
• Travel prompted by crusades which led to new interest in music
• Troubadours, Trouveres, and Minstrels were poets and musicians that influenced middle age music
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Guillaume de Machaut• 1st true genius of western music• 1st composer to create a polyphonic setting of
the “ordinary” of the Catholic Mass
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Other Composers
Hilegard Von Bingen
Tylman Susato
Maniot d’ Arras
Adam de la Halle
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Intruments: Wind
• Flute: Similar to modern flutes• The Shawn: reed instrument with vent holes• Bagpipe: used by the poorest people and was
made of goat or sheep skin and a reed pipe• Crumhorn: a double reed instrument
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Intruments: String
• Harp: 30 in. in length, played by plucking the strings
• Rebec: round pear shaped body like a violin• Psaltery: Cross between harp and guitar• Hurdy-Gurdy: bow was replaced by strings
attached to a wheel which was cranked by a handle
• Dulcimer: Played by striking the strings with a hammer
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Intruments: Percussion
• Drum: made from a hollow tree trunk, clay or metal and covered by skins of water animals
• Cymbal: Concave metal plates• Tambourine: Mostly used by women
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Works Cited• www.ipl.org/div/mushist/middle/index.html• www.middle-ages.org.uk• www.themiddleages.net• www.hypermusic.ca• www.google.com/images