(450-1450) Genres: Gregorian Chant‚ Secular music‚ Church Music Time period: Church was the center of the musical scene at this time period‚ most music at the beginning was just vocal and sacred because instruments were not allowed in church at this point in time. As time progressed secular music began to pick up because people wanted to be able to have music outside of church and generally wanted something with a strong steady beat that they could dance to. Gregorian Chant was also developed at
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genres‚ sacred and secular. Sacred music was performed during religious worship or ceremony and secular music was performed for entertainment purposes. The following paragraphs will discuss the maturity of music through this period (500-1200) through chants‚ polyphony‚ and musical instruments‚ as well as a review of two pieces of music composed during this time frame. Chanting is the original form of music
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order of services and structure of each service True The text Alleluia‚ O virgamediatrix is from which portion of the Mass? The Proper The texts of the Mass service that are specific to a particular feast day are called the Ordinary. False Gregorian chant features regularly phrased melodic lines supported by instrumental accompaniment. F Early notation used neumes‚ little ascending and descending signs written above the words that suggested the shape of the melodic line. True The text of the
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Music in the Medieval Ages In the beginning of the Medieval Ages‚ a time of war and plague‚ music was rare. The only place music was played in the church in the form of a chant. Secular music was not popular‚ and there were instruments that had not been made yet. Musicians were mostly traveling performers who played in front of kings or other types of nobility. The development of music changed history. If the instruments of the past had been not invented yet‚ or the changes to the church were not
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(Koopman). Thus‚ the very first form of music was a cappella. A cappella music is simply defined as music without instrumental accompaniment (Eichenwald). However‚ this includes a wide variety of music forms. The most significant of these are gregorian chants‚ barbershop quartets‚ doo-wop groups‚ and modern pop a cappella. I was introduced to a cappella music through YouTube‚ watching a modern group known as Pentatonix perform an a cappella rendition of the Evolution of Music. I immediately
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13th century‚ when the motet was originated. Originally‚ the motet was seen as a decoration of chant‚ for it was based on the sacred Latin texts of the Gregorian chant. In the early motet the tenor‚ or bottom voice‚ sang original Gregorian chant. In terms of form‚ it originated as a troped clausula. This changed in the 14th century when the idea of the motet was more secular‚ the tenor did not sing chant. The text was usually French and portrayed ideas of courtly love and satire. Often times the
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The Catholic Church has thought that the Old Testament was written in preparation for the New Testament. It is "are a storehouse of sublime teaching on God and of sound wisdom on human life‚ as well as a wonderful treasury of prayers; in them‚ too‚ the mystery of our salvation is present in a hidden way."(Catholic News Agency) The New Testament is written after the death of Jesus and discusses the acts and teachings of Jesus and spiritual guidance. It also teaches the Word of God and how his power
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Elements Music is an art based on the organization of sounds in time. Also the universal language of man or something who knows Pitch is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound Tone is a sound that has a definite pitch Interval is the distance in a pitch between any two tones Tones are separated by an interval called the octave Tones have a specific frequency in music Pitch range is the distance between the lowest and highest tones that a voice or instrument can produce
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mainly homophonic sound that develops into a polyphonic clash of brass‚ wood wind‚ vocals‚ skin drums and strings. It starts with one ominous and loud drum beat which is followed by Gregorian chant that rises in pitch and has no harmony. Flutes join in with a sharp‚ cold and high pitch melody that clashes with the chant. It has a quick and constant but‚ menacing bass line that plays the same repetitive and continuous note until after 2 bars it drops the first note down in pitch. (ask what shake
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if they knew how to read. Cathedrals during this time period had many symbols that showed Christ through the symbols. Some ways were through music‚ architecture‚ art itself shown around the cathedrals. In music‚ the priest would sing Gregorian Chants. A Gregorian Chants are where the priest would say something from the bible and the congregation would repeat it back. This was a way peasants could learn about the Bible without reading. In architecture‚ the foundation of the cathedrals was shaped like
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