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The most fundamental question of all in playing early music today is: how can the music be played to reflect historical practice? This is the first of three articles looking at historically-informe…
In the medieval and renaissance periods there were plentiful images of musical instruments and singers in manuscripts, paintings and sculpture, and many manuscripts of music notation survive from t…
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Medieval scribes took their animal illustrations very seriously.
I scanned this from a book which I bought solely for this image. It was so gorgeous, and I love finding illuminations of such quality. I then returned the book because, honestly, my bookshelves are tightly packed as it is!
The vielle or medieval fiddle was the most popular instrument in its heyday for secular song accompaniment. It first appeared in western Europe in the 11th century and continued to be played until …
By 1170, an era of free-thinking, self-proclaimed “emancipated” women had begun.
A collection of resources on Medieval music including and related to Troubadours & Trouvères, Iberian Music, Latin Song, Pilgrimage, Crusades, Instrumental Music, Ars antiqua, Hildegard of Bingen, Gautier de Coinci, Guillaume de Machaut, music theory, poetry treatises, dictionaries & glossaries, and relevant websites.
Major Music History Periods and Representative Composers: Medieval Period: ~500 – 1400 AD (Hildegard von Bingen, Guillaume de Machaut) Renaissance Period: ~1400 – 1600 AD (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Thomas Tallis, William Byrd) Baroque Period: ~1600 – 1750 AD (Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frederick Handel) Classical Period: ~1750 – 1825 AD (W.A. Mozart, Franz Joseph Haydn) Romantic Period: ~1825 – 1900 AD (Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert) Modern/20th Century Period: ~1900 – Present (Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copeland, Phillip Glass) When we talk about Early Music, the date range can be pretty large depending on who you ask. Some define it as all music from the “earliest times” up to the Baroque Era, some narrow the time frame to the Middle Ages through the Baroque, and some add some or all of the Classical period to the mix. For our purposes and study here, we’ll keep it within the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods (about 500 – 1750 AD). Medieval music has deep roots in ancient Greece and Rome, and particularly in the Roman Catholic Church. Stemming from Gregorian Chant and the Catholic Mass, music was an important part of academics, the church, and everyday life. As European nations began to develop, their music became more sophisticated and more of it was written down (and written about). A system of scale patterns (modes) and written notes (neumes) developed for musicians. There are few surviving (written) pieces of music for medieval instruments, but instrumentalists were mentioned quite a bit in writings of the time. Most melodies were passed down by rote, or by memory. Dances were particularly popular for instruments, with and without singers. Instruments from the Medieval Period included some familiar ones like horns, trumpets and percussion, and some lesser-known instruments like the shawm: and the hurdy-gurdy: Vocal music moved in complexity from single line chant: to multi-lined organum (meaning planned or organized): to secular motets: Whereas chant and early organum were improvised (made up on the spot), later organum and motets were generally written down. The first written manuscripts usually showed the direction of the notes rather than definite pitches or rhythms. As notation developed, more specifics were given for pitch and rhythm. Sources: Stolba: The Development of Western Music www.medieval.org
The most fundamental question of all in playing early music today is: how can the music be played to reflect historical practice? This is the first of three articles looking at historically-informe…
[Read part one first.] When I got back from a Minstrels of the Forest rehearsal (at John’s house) on May 19th, I decided to finish the hurdy by our next rehearsal, and in time for our next gi…
Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu, ca. 1475 - medieval musical manuscript
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by Gwendolyn the Graceful, Brehyres. In my previous article, I touched on the observation that so-called “SCA Bardic music” contains a preponderance of modern music in various forms. Th…
Israel Triumphant, The Chariot of Abinadab, Old Testament Miniatures, France, Paris, 1240s, MS M.638 (fol. 39r)
