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Medieval ReviewMake a timeline, 800-1400, that includesPOLITICS: Charlemagne, Battle of Hastings, plagueARCHITECTURE: Romanesque (approx.), Gothic startMUSIC: codification of CHANT, STAFF, NOTATION OF RHYTHM, ARS NOVA
Hildegard
800 1100 1400
ROMANESQUE
STAFF
1000CHANTstandardized
RHYTHMNOTATION
1250Rhythmic
modes
PerotinVideruntOmnes1200
ARS NOVA1300
improvised organum
GOTHIC (1150)
CHARLEMAGNE
MONASTERIES UNIVERSITY& CATHEDRAL
1066
Battle ofHastings
Culture of The Book
PLAGUE, SCHISM
E/W SchismFEUDALISM Decline of Church as
political power
PERSPECTIVE(GIOTTO) dematerialization continues
Where have we been?
Music Identifications• CHANT• HILDEGARD• PEROTIN• ARS NOVA
• Large intervals• this particular recording: women singing
• duple subdivision• jumble of texts in this example (a motet)
• monophony• Early Medieval• monastic life
• triple subdivision• (florid organum)• extreme melisma• POLYPHONY!• Viderunt omnes
Machaut must go on, but not on the next test
Machaut – from Messe de Notre Dame
Lush, 4-part texture
Harmonies unusual to our ear – pre-tonal
Who is depicted:
Doing what:
And that reflects the:
That we associate with:
When:
The 4 evangelists
Writing the GospelCulture of the Book
monasteriesMedieval
p. 132 Gospel Book of Charlemagne
see text p. 146
Name:
style:
elements:
St. SerninRomanesque
- round arches- a few narrow windows- heavy
FEUDALISM
WHAT:
DEPICTS:
WHEN:
POLITICAL/SOCIAL ORGANIZATION:
Bayeux Tapestry
Battle of Hastings
1066
p. 137-138
Style:
starts:
who:
elements of style:
Pointed archesStained glassFlying buttressesribbed vaultingVerticality
Gothic
1150
Abbot Suger
p. 162-166
Who is depicted:
Doing what:
And that reflects the:
That we associate with:
When:
St. Matthew
Writing the GospelCulture of the Book
monasteriesMedieval
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