Middle Ages Timeline (450-1450)

1. Middle Ages Timeline (450-1450) Dates:Music: 450-1000 Earliest notated Gregorian Chant Manuscripts (c. 900) 1000-1300 Troubadours and trouveres (c. 1100-1300) Hildegard of Bingen, O successores (c. 1150) School of Notre Dame (began c. 1170)

2. Middle Ages Timeline (450-1450) DatesHistorical and Cultural Events 450-1000 Sack of Rome by Vandals (455) Reign of Pope Gregory I (590- 604) Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman emperor (800) 1000-1300 Norman Conquest (1066) First Crusade (1096-1099) Magna Carta signed (1215)

3. Middle Ages Timeline (450-1450) Dates:Arts and Letters 450-1000 Beowolf ( c. 700) Book of Kells (c. 800) 1000-1300 Beginning of the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris (1163) Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica ( 1273)

4. Middle Ages Timeline (450-1450) DatesMusic 1300- 1450 Guillaume de Machuat Notre Dame Mass (c. 1350) Historical and Cultural Events Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453) Black Death (1347-1352) Joan of Arc executed by the English (1431)

5. Middle Ages Timeline (450-1450) DatesArts and Letters 1300-1450 Dante, The Divine Comedy ( 1321) Boccaccio, Decameron (1351) Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (1387-1400)

6. Music in the middle ages (450-1450) Page from Peterborough Psalter

7. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) During the Middle Ages, the church grew in prominence and social importance. Especially during the Dark Ages, the church became the center of education and music.

8. Middle Ages Music(450-1450) Children could receive music education in schools associated with churches and cathedrals.

9. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Most of the music from the Middle Ages was vocal, but a variety of musical instruments were used as accompaniment. However, very few manuscripts specify which instruments to use.

10. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) The organ was the prominent instrument used in churches. At first, it was very primitive and the keys were operated by heavy blows of the fist. It was so loud that it could be heard for miles.

11. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Gregorian chant consists of melody set to sacred Latin texts and sung without accompaniment. The chant is monophonic in texture. This means that there is only one musical line to listen to.

12. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Gregorian chant is calm and has an otherworldy quality. It represents the voice of the church. It is very free in rhythm and has very little sense of the beat. Also, the notes are all close together.

13. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory I (The Great), who reorganized the Catholic liturgy during his time as Pope. Most of the melodies that we recognize as Gregorian chant were created between 600 and 1300.

14. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam A Solo, opening - Alleluia Halleljah Choir many tones- ia jah. on ia.

15. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam B Choir: Vidimus stellam ejus in Oriente et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominun. English: We have seen His star in the east and are come with gifts to worship the Lord.

16. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam A Choir opening Alleluia. Hallelujah Phrase with many tones on ia.

17. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) Known as the first female composer. -She wrote both the text and music of her songs.

18. A drone consisits of one or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody. • Hildegard of Bingen: O successores Low Register O successores fortissimi leonis inter templum et altare- dominantes in ministratione eius English: You successors of the mightest lion between the temple and the altar- you the masters of his household-

19. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Hildegard of Bingen: O successores Melody rise sicut angeli sonant in laudimus and falls et sicut adsunt populis in adiutorio, vos estis inter illos, qui haec faciunt, semper curam habentes English: as the angels sound forth praises and are here to help the nations, you are among those who accomplish this forever showing your care

20. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Hildegard of Bingen: O successores Climax on in officio agni. Officio, long descent on agni. English: in the service of the lamb.

21. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Secular Music in the Middle Ages Despite the prominence of Gregorian chant, there was music written outside the church. The first large body of songs notated was composed during the 12th and 13th centuries by French nobles called troubadours and trouveres.

22. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) However, this notation has no indication of rhythm of meter. It is very likely that many had a regular meter and clearly defined beat, which is completely different from the free, nonmetrical rhythm of Gregorian chant.

23. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Estampie (13th century) – a medieval dance, is one of the earliest surviving forms of instrumental music. In this recording, the melody is played on a rebec ( a bowed string instrument) and a pipe ( atubular wind instrument). Since the minstrals probably improvised modest accompaniments to dance tunes, the performers have added a drone- two repeated notes on a fifth interval, played on a psaltery (a plucked or struck string instrument).

24. Since the minstrals probably improvised modest accompaniments to dance tunes, the performers have added a drone- two repeated notes on a fifth interval, played on a psaltery (a plucked or struck string instrument).

25. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) The Development of Polyphony Polyphony- performance of two or more melodic lines of equal interest. Organum- Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines.

26. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) School of Notre Dame: Measured Rhythm After 1150, Paris- the intellectual and artistic capital of Europe- became the center of polyphonic music. The Notre Dame Cathedral became the place for music. The two most successful choirmasters of Notre Dame were Leonin and Petrotin.

27. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Guillaume de Machuat (1300-1377)- a French composer, musician and a poet. He studied theology and spent much of his life in the service of various royal families. Notre Dame Mass is one of the best known compositions of the fourteenth century.

28. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Machuat’s Notre Dame Mass, one of the finest compositions known from the Middle Ages. Also, this is of great historical importance because it is the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer. The mass ordinary consists of texts that remain the same from day to day throughout the day. The five sung prayers of the ordinary are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. Since the 14th century, these five texts have been set to polyphonic music and have been the text for some of the finest choral works in all of history.

29. The mass ordinary consists of texts that remain the same from day to day throughout the day. • The five sung prayers of the ordinary are the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei. • Since the 14th century, these five texts have been set to polyphonic music and have been the text for some of the finest choral works in all of history.

30. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Machaut, Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass A Agnus Dei peccata mundi : miserere nobis. B Agnus Dei peccata mundi : miserere nobis. A Agnus Dei peccata mundi: dona nobis pacem.

31. Middle Ages Music (450-1450) Machaut, Agnus Dei from Notre Dame Mass A Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world have mercy on us. B Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world have mercy on us. A Lamb of God, who taketh away the sins of the world, grant us peace.