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The Central Middle Ages 1100-1350:
Biographies of composers of Early Music complementing Here Of A Sunday Morning the radio program.
From the Ninth Century onwards, a new kind of music began to appear, in which the older chants were implemented by additional voice parts of increasingly independent character. The gradual melodic...
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Medieval Music, Wikipedia,
The term Medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD) and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Establishing the end of the Medieval era and the beginning of the Renaissance is admittedly arbitrary; 1400...
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Medieval Period
(1200 - 1450):
A large proportion of the music developed in Europe during the medieval period was vocal, both of a religious and secular nature. In church music, this took the form of Gregorian and other types of chants, while non-religious music consisted largely of the songs of traveling minstrels and...
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Medieval Instruments - David Munrow - spoken introduction, demonstration of individual instruments. CD. Check our music samples and detailed description.
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Middle Ages: 450-1450: Introduction to the Medieval Era from Essentials of Music linked to details on historical themes, musical context, style, and composer biographies.
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The Middle Ages:
The traditions of Western music can be traced back to the social and religious developments that took place in Europe during the Middle Ages, the years roughly spanning from about 500 to 1400 A.D. Because of the domination of the early Christian Church during this period, sacred music was the most prevalent. Beginning...
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The Power of Music in Medieval Literature: An Honors Thesis presented by Brenda Jean Johnstone to the Medieval Studies Department in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Honors in the Major Field. New London, Connecticut. May 2000.
This work discusses the power of music in medieval literature. It begins with The Life of Saint...
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Wind Instrument Ensembles in Italy from 1450 to162:
By the Beauteous Brenda Flynn;
A neat fact of music history trivia is that one of the first composers (though not the very first) to specify both specific wind instruments to specific musical lines in ensemble compositions and dynamics is Giovanni Gabrieli...
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