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Music in the Middle Ages : a reference guide / Suzanne Lord.
| Author/creator | Lord, Suzanne, 1946- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008. |
| Description | xii, 204 pages : illustrations, maps, music ; 27 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The middle ages: general background. The decline and fall of the Roman empire ; The dark ages ; The rise of the early Christian church ; Charlemagne and the Holy Roman Empire ; The feudal system ; Major events of the middle ages -- The early middle ages and church music. Gregory I and the chant named after him ; The Gregorian chant ; Monasticism and the divine office ; Hildegard of Bingen ; Development of notation in the middle ages ; Reading Gregorian chant notation ; Changes to church chants -- The music of France in the middle ages. French territory ; French language ; Aquitaine ; Troubadours, trouveres, trobairices, jongleurs ; France and polyphony -- The music of the Italian states in the middle ages. The papal states ; Guido d'Arezzo ; The Italian trecento ; Florence ; The fifteenth century -- Music of the Germanic lands. The Holy Roman Empire -- Life in the medieval Germanic lands ; German sacred music ; Minnesingers ; Meistersingers ; German plague songs ; Stadtpfeiferei -- Music of the British isles in the middle ages. English church music before the Norman invasion ; Pre-Norman secular music: scops and gleemen ; Music notation in Britain ; The post-conquest English church and Sarum chant ; Faburden ; English vernacular song ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; Chapel royal ; English composers of the middle ages -- Music of the Iberian peninsula in the middle ages. The music of christian Iberia ; Moorish music on the Iberian peninsula ; Jewish music ; Flamenco music -- Music of Burgundy and the Low Countries in the middle ages. Life in the Burgundian territory ; Burgundians and the arts ; Feast of the pheasant ; "The English face" ; Two Burgundian musicians ; The end of Burgundian rule -- The music of other European areas in the middle ages. Czech lands ; Hungary ; Poland ; Slovenia ; Croatia -- Musical instruments of the middle ages. Stringed instruments ; Woodwind instruments ; Horns/"brass" instruments ; Keyboard instruments ; Percussion instruments -- Dance music of the middle ages. Carole ; Estampie ; Paired dances ; St. Vitus's dance and totentanz ; The basse dance -- The end of the middle ages. The peace of Lodi (treaty of Lodi or treaty of Venice) ; The end of the hundred years' war ; The fall of Constantinople. |
| Abstract | Music both influences and reflects the times in which it was created. In the Middle Ages, the previous Dark Ages, the Crusades, and the feudal system all impacted the types and forms of music in the period. Charlemagne standardized the church mass and promoted the Gregorian chant, to the point of threatening excommunication if any other were performed. Musical notation - the staff line - was developed during the period. The troubadours of France, Meistersingers of Germany, the Cantus Firmus of Italy, and the instruments that played the music are all included in this thorough guide to music of the middle ages. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-182) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008020717 |
| ISBN | 9780313338847 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0313338841 (alk. paper) |