1. Medieval Era
Secular Music

2. Medieval Era: Secular Music
Secular music developed in the late Medieval era
People were focusing more on Common Law, and not on the Church
Secular : means being separate from religion

3. Medieval Era: Secular Music
Secular music in the Middle Ages included:
Love songs
Political satire
humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, society, etc.
Dances
Dramatic works

4. Medieval Era: Secular Music
Instruments used in secular music:
Drums
Harps
Recorders
Bagpipes
They were easy for the traveling musician to carry
Instruments were taught through oral tradition and provided great dancing music and accompanied the stanzas well.

5. Medieval Era: Secular Music
The largest collection of secular music from this period comes from poems of celebration and chivalry of the troubadours from the south of France.
These poems contain clever rhyme-schemes, varied use of refrain-lines or words, and different metric patterns.

6. Medieval Music: Troubadours
The word troubadour is a French word meaning “to find,” “to invent.”
Invented new poems, finding new verse for his elaborate love lyrics.
Traveling musicians.
Some travelled to the major cities of Europe.
The troubadour would play for royalty, lords and nobles.
Medieval Troubadours travelled to the Holy Land accompanying the people who went on Crusade.
Traveling allowed Troubadours to spread the latest news.

7. Medieval Music: Troubadours
The themes of the songs sung by the Medieval Troubadours dealt with:
Chivalry
Courtly love (romantic ballads).
Stories of far lands
Historical events.

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