Music Periods

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Sylabic

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Melismatic

• Carillon

• Tambor

• Organ
• Portative

• Harp

Membranophones

Aerophones

• Peter Abelard

• Perotin

• Leonin

• Guillaume of Machaut

• Guido d' Arezzo

• Hildegard Von Bingen

Chordophones

Idiophones

Instruments

Composers

Was new and for 2-4 voices, that are voices sung in the same rythm in the sylabic style.

It appeared later and the structure was: Gregorian melody + new voices moved in the contary motion

Conductus

Discantus

Organum

Is the earliest form and the structure was: Gregorian melody + parallel voice

• The text was in latin and it was religious
• Just used organum
• It has a monophonic texture
• It used modal scales

Characteristics

Was between the 7th century-9th century. It was in honour of the Pope. The first musical symbols were called neumes. It can be sylabic or melismatic.

Were clerics or medicant students

• Wrote poetry in latin
• They apeared in the 13th cebtury
• Carmina Burana was a famous collection

• Were for the nobility
• Were perfom in palaces
• They composed their own music

• Were for common people
• Were perfom in villages
• Were artist, acrobats...

Minstrels

Gregoriant Chant

Appearence of the polyphony

Vocal

Religious

Goliards

Characteristics

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• It has a monophonic texture, with instrumental accompaniment
• It use modal scales and rhythmic modes
• It's written in the local language
• It just weren't religous, they were made for fun or entertaiment

Secular

Date: S.V-S.XV

THE Middle Ages