Music History 1st year midterm notes Chapter V: The Middle Ages and the Evolution of Polyphony Early Middle Ages (5th-10th century) High Middle Ages (1 lath-13th century) Late Middle Ages (14th-1 5th century) Composers: Hildebrand of Binge (1098-1179) Songs composed Plainchant Sequence: Communal Aspect About: -German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian, and visionary -had visions and … Read more
The application of the term “baroque”, which literally means “irregularly shaped pearl”, to this period is a relatively recent development, first used by Curt Cash in 1919, and only acquiring currency in English in the sass. Indeed, as late as 1960 there was still considerable dispute in academic circles whether it was meaningful to lump … Read more
Music History 1st year midterm notes Chapter V: The Middle Ages and the Evolution of Polyphony Early Middle Ages (5th-10th century) High Middle Ages (1 lath-13th century) Late Middle Ages (14th-1 5th century) Composers: Hildebrand of Binge (1098-1179) Songs composed Plainchant Sequence: Combat Aspect About: -German writer, composer, philosopher, Christian, and visionary -had visions and … Read more
Music, much like most of what human beings have declared to be a form of art, has gone through thousands of years of evolution that it now no longer resembles much of what its pioneers intended to be. Indeed, the definition of music in itself along with its performance and significance may vary according to … Read more
The application of the term “baroque”, which literally means “irregularly shaped pearl”, to this period is a relatively recent development, first used by Curt Cash in 1919, and only acquiring currency in English in the sass. Indeed, as late as 1960 there was still considerable dispute in academic circles whether it was meaningful to lump … Read more
During the baroque period of great theatrical energy, and a dramatic use of light, scale, and balance, French artists adopted Italian Renaissance ideas but made them their own; by the end of the seventeenth century, France had began to take the lead in European art. Early eighteenth-century France, the heavy theatrical qualities of Italian Baroque … Read more