Week 32 - Three Medieval Composers
Stuff done this week: - Mostly started reading about the Medieval music period. Notes and sources are listed at the bottom of this page. - Started on research point 2, which requires me to select three composers and write short biographical notes on them and listen to examples of their work. - Interesting link I found that I need to check out: https://historiesofemotion.com/2015/06/09/arousing-sluggish-souls-hildegard-of-bingen-and-the-ordo-virtutum/ ____________________________________________________ What I learned: Here my notes. Religious music in the Medieval period Medieval music was predominantly religious music and it had a liturgical function. The church music of the early Middle Ages - before the advent of polyphony around the 9th century - is referred to as plain chant (Knight, 2012). It is thought to have emerged around 100 A.D. and was, in fact, the only type of music allowed in the early Christian churches. It involved chanting, only...