Music

• MUSIC- IS THE UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF THE PEOPLE AROUND THE GLOBE
• PERFOMER – a person who serves as its interpreter
• RELIGION - A mass celebration where music was used
• ENTERTAINMENT - a place get together where music and dance are observed
• Dance – music is a complementary with this.
• Medieval period - Starting point of music history documentation through
• TRIAL AND ERROR method-determined the accurate sound of every pitch name.
• Travelling musicians known as TROUBADOURS ( from southern Europe) TROUVERES and (from France) performed secular music focused on heroic deeds and love.
• Gregorian Chant- founded by Pope Gregory the Great
• Monophony (singing of single notes)
• Polyphony (more than 1 note, includes harmony and chords)
• Rhythmic modes- known as Intervals (the gap/distance from one note to the other), was developed by the composers in Notre Dame School of Polyphony.
• WIND INSTRUMENTS - Include the flute(transverse woodwind instrument), trumpet(extremely limited range of notes being played and used to send orders during the battles
• STRING INSRUMENTS -are the lute( a large pear-shaped body with gut strings), fiddle (turned into violin), gittern(ancestor of violin)
• PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS - Include the dulcimer (plucked by striking the strings with small hammers), tambourine(resembling a shallow drum with small metal disks around the edge), Drums (barrel-shaped instrument being struck with the sticks/hands)
• GOSPEL MUSIC –intended for praise and worship within the context of religious engagement in the Christian church
• Women were accepted to be with men in the musical scene.
• Polyphonic type of music began
• THE MASS – catholic church(vocal composition)
• THE MOTET – a vocal polyphonic musical composition
• THE MADRIGAL SPIRITUAL- another polyphonic composition using sacred texts THE LAUDE – a hym
• THE LAUDE – a hymn of praise in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Christ and the Saints.
• Harmony-2 or more notes
• Triad -3 notes
• Renaissance mass – a polyphonic choral composition made of 5 sections: KYRIE, GLORIA, CREDO, SANCTUS and AGNUS DEI.
• RECORDER - Similar to flute( a vertical flute)
• SHAWN- An early clarinet
• SACKBUT- an early trombone
• LUTE – a plucked stringed instrument
• THE ORGAN –a keyboard instrument using multiple layered set of keys.
• HAPSICHORD – similar to piano but a smaller version wherein the white keys of piano is colored black and black keys are colored white.
• BAROQUE – means bizarre
• Baroque Orchestra – a combination of diff. musical instruments being played.
• OPERA – a drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment
• Sonata – a composition in several movements for one to eight instruments.
• Cantata – a piece that was sung.
• Oratorio – a large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloist and orchestra.
• PIANO – dominant musical instrument
• Chamber Music – small ensemble of instrumentalists intended for hall presentation
• Choral – Polyphonic conservative music