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Middle Ages (475-1450 C.E.) - Coggle Diagram
Middle Ages (475-1450 C.E.)
Secular Music
rhythmical music
not related to religion
Ars Nova
isorhythm
by poets, instrumentalists, dukes…
instrumental music
estampie
No poems
No singing
Plainchant/Gregorian chant
religious chant
No rhythmical structure
No pattern
based on 7 medieval modes
No sharp
No minor scale
No major scale
No flat
voices only
free singing
reciting tone
slight variation at end
one pitch
monophonic texture
by monks
no instruments
Organum Music
parallel organum
melodies played in parallel
different pitches
polyphonic texture
drone organum
sustain note played by the drone instrument
one pitch