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MIDDLE AGES - Coggle Diagram
MIDDLE AGES
Religious music
- Character: monks and priest: Pope Gregory The Great (6th century).
**- Places:** monestirs, cathedrals, churches.
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- Topic: religious: Saints' lives, Miracles of God and Virgin, The Bible...
- Features: "Gregorian Chant", no instruments, Latin langiage, male voices.
Secular music
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-Topic: Chivarly (knights), history, battles, love, loyalty, bravery...
-Purpose: entertain, have fun and educate people.
-Places: squares of the village, in court, and nobility houses.
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Social context
- Europa is divided in little territories
- Christianity spreads in Europe: churches, monasteries, cathedrals...
- Theocentrism: god is the centre of the universe.
- Social classes: clergy, nobility and common people.
Instruments
Strings: viola, psaltery, harp.
Wind: hornpipe, bagpipes, trumpets.
Percussion: drums, cymbals, bells.
Vocabulary
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Cantiga: literary composition with music and poetry, written in Galician-Portuguese.
Pantocrator: a picture of God which is strict and serious, as a judge of humanity.
Guido d'Arezzo
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-Name of the notes, using the fist syllable of a poem dedicated to Saint Jhon the Baptist.
Hildegard Von Bingen
-She was a German nun, writer, scientist and composter. She had religious visions with music.
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Alfonso X "El sabio"
-Alfonso X (13th century), king of Castile and Leon, poet and musician, improvedculture.
-His most important workk, Las Cantigas de Santa María, are 417 songs about the Miracles og the Virgin, written in Galician-Portuguese.
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Minstrels nowadays
Singer-songwriter entertain and inform people with their own lyrics. They talk about humans feelings and social and political issuses. As examples: Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohem.
Pop singer - songwriters
There is another grup of singer - songwriters of pop music- They talk about love, friendship, family relationship...