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    Song and Dance Music To 1300

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    The document summarizes music outside of the church between 1300-1300. It discusses various types of secular music including vernacular songs composed in different languages, dance music like caroles and estampies, and instruments used. It also describes different types of musicians like troubadours, trouvères, minnesingers and jongleurs who traveled and performed this music. The document traces the development of Western European music following the decline of the Roman Empire and influence of the Byzantine and Islamic worlds.

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    The document summarizes music outside of the church between 1300-1300. It discusses various types of secular music including vernacular songs composed in different languages, dance music like caroles and estampies, and instruments used. It also describes different types of musicians like troubadours, trouvères, minnesingers and jongleurs who traveled and performed this music. The document traces the development of Western European music following the decline of the Roman Empire and influence of the Byzantine and Islamic worlds.

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    The document summarizes music outside of the church between 1300-1300. It discusses various types of secular music including vernacular songs composed in different languages, dance music like caroles and estampies, and instruments used. It also describes different types of musicians like troubadours, trouvères, minnesingers and jongleurs who traveled and performed this music. The document traces the development of Western European music following the decline of the Roman Empire and influence of the Byzantine and Islamic worlds.

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    Song and Da

    nce
    Music to 13
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    Dr. Beverly
    Shangkuan-
    Cheng
    What was music like outside
    the church?

    Picture
    Music in the church Music outside of the church

    Focus on music education Few read music

    Music was notated. Music was seldom written down or written


    about.

    Most of the music remain. Most of the music has vanished.


    Music in the church Music outside of the church

    Focus on music education Few read music

    Music was notated. Music was seldom written down or written


    about.

    Most of the music remain. Most of the music has vanished.

    A cappella With instruments


    Instruments
    0 Fiddle
    0 Psaltery
    0 Transverse flute
    0 Shawm
    0 Pipe and tabor
    Adam de la Halle

    Poet-composer

    Complete works were collected


    in a manuscript

    Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion


    (The Play of Robin and Marion)
    Latin Songs
    0 Latin newly composed melodies:
    0 Versus
    0 Conductus
    0 Goliard songs – associated with wandering students
    and clerics
    0 Topics vary from religious and moral themes to satire
    and celebrations of love, spring, eating, drinking, and
    other earthly pleasures.
    Dance Music
    0 Carole – circle dance that was usually accompanied by
    a song sung by one or more of the dancers.
    0 Estampie – instrumental dance music
    Vernacular Songs
    0 Composed in medieval French, English, German,
    Italian, Spanish, and various other vernacular
    languages.
    0 Ex. Song of Roland

    0 Songs of the troubadours and trouvères


    0 Love songs predominate.
    0 Most are strophic, and dance songs often include a
    refrain.
    Professional Musicians
    0 Poet-singers – troubadours and trouvères
    0 Jongleurs (from the same root as English “jugglers”) –
    lower-class itinerant musicians who traveled alone or
    in groups, earning a precarious living by performing
    tricks, telling stores, and singing or playing
    instruments.
    0 Minstrel – from Latin minister, “servant”
    - used for specialized musicians, many of
    whom were employed at a court or city for at least part
    of the year
    Lyric poets traveling and singing,
    mostly about courtly love

    In France,
    troubadours/trouvères

    In Germany,
    Minnesinger
    European Society, 800-1300
    0 Music was shaped by currents in the wider society:

    0 Political developments
    0 Linguistic regions
    0 Economic growth
    0 Social class
    0 Support for learning and the arts
    Successors to the Roman
    Empire (800)
    0 Byzantine Empire in Asia Minor and southeastern
    Europe
    0 Most direct successor
    0 Arab world (founding of the Islamic religion
    around 610 by Muhammad)
    0 Strongest and most vibrant
    0 Western Europe
    0 Weakest, poorest, and most fragmented
    European culture owes much
    to the three empires.
    0 Byzantines – preserved Greek and Roman science,
    architecture, and culture.
    0 Arabs – extended Greek philosophy and science, fostered
    trade and industry, and contributed to medicine, chemistry,
    technology, and mathematics.
    0 Western Europe – Through Charlemagne, learning and
    artistic achievement were promoted. Charlemagne
    improved education and sponsored scholarship and the
    arts. Charlemagne and his son Louis the Pious made their
    courts into centers for intellectual and cultural life, setting
    a pattern for Western rulers that endured for a thousand
    years.
    Western Europe saw remarkable
    economic progress and by 1300,
    it had surpassed the Byzantine
    Empire and the Islamic world in
    economic strength.
    Following Louis’ Death
    0 Empire divided
    0 Western part of the Empire
    became France
    0 Eastern part claimed by German
    kings.
    0 Central kingdom emerged in
    England.
    Louis the Pious (r. 814 - 43)
    0 Spain and Italy were divided.
    Lauda
    Troubadours
    Trouvères

    Cantiga
    Minnesingers

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