Roman Catholic Church in Charge of Music

Monday, September 26, 2016

Music111 D1W5 & D2

Middle Ages

-reading

•passed generation to generation

-then written down

•Roman Catholic church in charge of music

-everyone went to church

-no individualism

-fear based

•protestant was created

•Deism

-sacred music

-developed music

-peasants pay to church and state

•Monophonic

•polyphonic

•homophonic

-Study all of the music

•20 songs from Wentz’s Top 20

•Musical Eras (very important to know)

-Middle Ages

-Renaissance

-Baroque

-Classical

-Romantic

-20th century

-#10 Hallelujah Chorus (Messiah)

•George Frederick Handel

•Based on the Messiah (story of Jesus in the New Testament Bible)

•original lent (Easter) mostly now advent (Christmas)

-Group Projects - hypothetical situation

•Create a civilization

•Dawn of time nomad who want to create a society

-cultural norms

-music

-religion

-how do we make music

-how do other aspects influence the music

•environmental influence

-Our Civilization

•by the ocean

-topical island

•political

•social

-bunched together

-smoke signals

•signal when lost

-buildings out of banana leaves

-start fires with rubbing sticks

-make boats

•use banana leaves as sails

•got there by crashing a boat

-write on tree bark

•using charcoal

•religious

-praise the monkeys

-tiki carvings

•cultural

•music

-fish scales

-monkey screams

-use coconuts with different holes for drums

-pluck fish ribs

-clank on shells

-bang on old ship

-straws to make flutes

-empty bottles with different water levels

•need leaders for each group

-Lecture notes – Wednesday, September 28th

-#9 Symphony No. 9 Ode to Joy

•Ludwig Van Beethoven

-master of instrumentation

•4th and final movement is the most famous

•multi-movement symphony

•European anthem

•Crescendo

-change in volume upward

-has a build up

•subito piano

-suddenly quiet

-#8 Also Sprach Zarathustra

•Also speaks Zarathustra

•Richard Strauss

-Enjoyment of music

•Practice tests online

•linked on Canvas

•wwnorton.com

•ebook

•Unit one and two are free game for the test on Monday

-The Middle Ages and Renaissance

•Roman empire fall

-starts middle ages

•Renaissance

-French for “rebirth”

•first born with Greeks

•Music become a social event

-enhances communication

•notation: sounds to paper

•music is commodity

-preserved taught bout sold

-secular

•From antiquity to the Middle of Things

-Mediterranean cultures

•founded western music

-476 beginning of middle ages

•after fall of Roman Empire

-Early middle ages 500-1000

•power from kings

-Later middle ages

•universities founded

•cities emerged

•cathedrals: Notre Dame in Paris

-music center early polyphonic composition

•markets and courts

-feudal society

•later middle ages

-trade routes throughout Europe

•music crucial commodity

-crusades: era of violence

•knights: age of chivalry

•cult of Mary raised status of women

•court (and traveling) minstrels: secular music

-songs about romantic love

-music of vernacular (language of people)

-brought back Arab and Turkish music and instruments

-Music in medieval and renaissance society

•musicians were supported by public institutes and aristocrats

-Voice and Worship

•Life of the medieval Cloister

-monastery

•men

-convent

•women

-Plain Chant

•monophonic

•early church music

•non-metric

•Latin text

•liturgy

•Gregorian chant

•Classes of chant (on test)

-syllabic

•every syllable gets a note

-Neumatic

•Mixture of syllabic and melismatic singing

-Melismatic

•many notes per syllable

•early notation

-neumes

-modes

-Hildegard of Bingen

•First (and one of the only) great females in music history

•wrote tons of music

•prophecies

•science