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Medieval Monophony
Music outside the church in the Middle AgesMedieval Secular Vocal Music
Insert NAWM 5th edition, disc 11
Latin
versus and conductusrhythmic, rhymed, often attached to the liturgy as background or processional
Goliard songsBishop Goliard mentor of numbers of Order of Goliard did not exist. Goliards were actually clerical students who wrote satirical, and often obscene, songs, sometimes based on the texts of the mass and hymns.
FRANCEThe earliest known French writings are from the 800s.
La Chanson de Roland
Chanson de gestesong of heroic deedsEarly 11th centuryAbout 100 existPerformed by jongleurJongleurs/mnstrelsbottom of social scalewanderings contributed to spread and survival of medieval monophonic songParisian jongleurs guild active from 1120 to 1700snot composersNorthern French
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Troubadours and Trouvres11th 13th Century poet-composersOften nobilitysongs:syllabic, melismas @ end of lineshort phrases, narrow rangerhythm not indicatedabout 250 exist
SouthTroubadoursNorthTrouvrescansopastorellaalbatensojoc partisirventesSongschansonpastourelledescortjeu partichanson de toilelaisDance songsbaladadansaestampiecaroleronde/rondel/rondelet
the canso and chanson are about courtly/chivalric lovethe balada and dansa are about love, mention the spring festival, and are strophic with a refrain
Add map of France5
Bernart de Ventadorn (ca. 1130- ca. 1200)
Can vei la lauzeta mover; cansotroubadourHis parents were servants, possibly bakers, at the Castle of Ventadour in what is now southern France. He worked at various courts in France and England and died in a monastery.
King Richard the Lionheart (1157-1199)talented trouvreKing of England 1189-1199was captured during the crusadeslegend has it that a fellow trouvre was able to find him by means of a song the two had coauthored.
Adam de la Halleca. 12401288considered greatest trouvremonophonic and polyphonic compositionschansonsjeux-partisrondeauxmotetsplays w/musicLe Jeu de Robin et de Marionspoken dialogue interspersed with songsspecified instrumentationRobins maime
Trobairitzwomen troubadoursthe only trobairitz poem with music that has been found is by Comtessa de DiaA chantar
Comtessa de Dia
German Minnesnger12th-13th century poet-musiciansone who sings about courtly loveBar formaab (stolen, stolen, abgesang)Walther von der VogelweidePalstinalied
Walther von der Vogelweide
statue in Wrtzburg10
Spanish Cantigasrulers traveled between France and Spainbefore 1225, much Iberian poetry written in the Provenal languageCantigas de Santa Mariacollection of Galician-Portuguese music prepared under the direction of Alfonso X the Wise, King of Castile and LonCantiga 159: Non sofre Santa MariaAbbaA form of later form fixes virelai/ballata
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Italian Laudelaudasongs of wandering penitents who sought atonement for their sins by self-flagellationstrophic
English Monophony
An English ScopSt. Godrics hermitagebefore Norman Conquest:scopcourt entertainergleemantraveling musicianafter Norman conquest:minstrelssongslong narrative poems with harpSt. Godric (d. 1170)Saxon Hermitearliest surviving vernacular English songs(picture on right is Benedictine Priory by River Wear in Durham, England, where St. Godric was a hermit)