1. Medieval Music

2. Musicians
Bards
Jongleurs
Minstrels
Troubadours
Minnesinger

3. Instruments Vielle (fiddle) Lute (guitar) Hurdy-gurdy Flute Pipe
Portative Organ

4. Hurdy Gurdy

5. Medieval Music Dark Ages 600 to 1000 CE Plainchant Monophonic
Orally transmitted
Anonymous
High Middle Ages
1000 to 1400 CE
Organum
Polyphonic
Musical Notation
Composers

6. Organum Religious music Two or more voices (Polyphonic)
Plainchant is heard as one voice (God)
Tenore, lower voice
Second voice decorates the first (Man)
Duplum, higher voice

7. Notre Dame Polyphony First polyphony read from notation
Elaborate, more sophisticated style to go with the new Gothic cathedrals

8. Notre Dame Polyphony Perotin – Alleluya (Navititas)
What to listen for:
Distinct upper and lower voices
Melismatic (many notes)
Melody is exchanged between upper voices

9. Perotin – Alleluya (Navititas)

10. Notre Dame Polyphony Machaut – Messe de Notre Dame
Guillaume de Machaut was the most important composer of the 14th century
Supported by royal patrons, allowing him to focus on composition
Ma-Show

11. Machaut – Messe de Notre Dame

12. Pilgrimage Songs
Songs that are religious in subject matter and would be played/sung on pilgrimages.

13. Non e gran causa Pilgrimage song
A tale of a pilgrim who sins and then meets the Devil on the road to Santiago
The sinner is being watched over by Mary

14. Dance Music The Rise of Courtly Culture
The nobility of southern France created an elaborate society centered on the court
Music was an important activity of these courts
The aristocracy took part in the performance and composition of secular works.

15. La scesa de’ Pastori dal Monte (Descent of the Shepard from the Hill)
Italian
Composed by Andrea Ansalone
Dancers perform while musicians play
As new sections of instruments join the theme, dancers appear on stage as new characters (Dryads, Satyrs, Apes, etc.)

16. Love Song
One of the most popular forms of music during the Middle Ages.
Troubadours would sing these songs in the hope of earning:
a place to spend the night
the favor of a lady
or both

17. Tempus est iocundum (This is the joyful time)
From The Carmina Burana
“Songs of Beuren”
Written in the 13th Century
Discovered in 1803
Over 200 songs
Lovesick Troubadour
Uncontrollable passion

18. Tempus est iocundum