History of Music: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance

- written/sung in 11th-12th century by men who'd dropped out of the clergy - patron saint was Goliath - songs were about their daily lives: love life, work, ideas, etc.

- largest collection of Goliard songs from 13th century - ballades, moralistic poetry, love songs

- "Leading" - polyphonic latin song - NON LITURGICAL TEXT - 11th-13th century - metrical (unlike chant) - reflected serious/somber thought and influence of the Latin Church - religious, but not used in the liturgy

- lament of death - songs are related to the chant - rhymed and metered poetry - syllabic

- songs that told the story of a hero - 9th-10th century when the minstrels would pass the story back and forth verse by verse

- song of deed - used common language - stanza of 10 lines - Chanson de Roland: most famous epic written about Charlemagne and his knights in spain - El Cid: national epic of spain

- uneducated musicians, gymnasts, magicians - sang monophonic songs - had no way of writing their music down

- "song" - used only by the minstrels - about courtly love

- a refined spiritual love that shouldn't be consummated - pure and noble

- upperclass educated men - wrote a new type of lyrical poetry - SOUTHERN France

- song about courtly love - strophic (has stanzas) - syllabic - mode 1 or 7

a female troubadour like the Countess of Dia

introductory poem written by a troubadour that is somewhat biographical, but establishes the persona of the following songs

- troubadours that migrated from the south to north with the court of Eleanor of Aquitaine - NORTHERN France - music had more structure than the troubadours

- 2 sides to music: AAB - Frons: front - Pes: middles - Cauda: back/tail - often there was a refrain (reoccurring text)

a song based on several melodies at the same time

- Germans followed the French's example - called themselves minnesingers - minne = courtly love - more sober than troubadours - content of their songs are religious - Bar form

- AAB - principle form of early German monophonic secular song