Aristocratic Music and Dance in Medieval Europe Music and the Human Experience with Professor Kattari Development of music liturgy and notation Music liturgy and notation is music written down so that it can be played again Periods of Developments o 470 A D 800 A D Chants are learned orally and are simple 800 A D Charlemagne wants to standardize all chants o 900 A D First music notated approximately o 1200 A D Specific pitches are notated Timeline of Medieval Secular Music 476 A D 800 A D Early Middle Ages 1000 A D 1450 A D Late Middle Ages o Troubadours Court singers in Southern France that sang about courtly love 1100 A D 1300 A D Courtly love desire for a woman that cannot be consummated because of social status Can Vei La Lauzeta Mover Bernart Ventadorn In class example of troubadour song o Guillame de Machaut 1300 1377 famous composer priest that worked for a king not a troubadour Composed both sacred and secular songs Known for rondeaus songs with repeating refrain after stanzas Medieval Instruments Bowed Strings viol Winds recorder Plucked Strings gittern Struck Strings dulcimer Percussion drums First Notated Instrumental Music c 1250 Estampie couple dance music to fast triple meter o France and Italy during 12th 14th centuries Review Questions Why don t we have notated secular music from the EARLY middle ages It was expensive and tedious to write and record things down Why do you think we know more about court music than any other type of secular music in the Middle Ages Because the courts had the time and money to write and record things down
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