Historia de la música

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Historia de la Música - Mapa conceptual.

Un pequeño repaso por las dístintas épocas y géneros musicales

The Middle Ages 450-1450

• The main form of music was the Gregorian chant, named for Pope Gregory I.  
• This music was used in the Catholic Churches to enhance the services.  
• It consisted of a sacred Latin text sung by monks without instrumentation.   
• The chant is sung in a monophonic texture, which means there is only one line of music.   
• It has a free-flowing rhythm with little or no set beat.  
• The chants were originally all passed through oral tradition, but the chants became so numerous that the monks began to notate them.  
• 12^th and 13^th centuries: music began to move outside of the church.   
• French nobles called troubadours and trouveres were among the first to have written secular songs.
• Music of this time was contained among the nobility, with court minstrels performing for them.   
• There were also wandering minstrels who would perform music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, and town squares.  These people were among the lowest social class, but they were important because they passed along information, since there were no newspapers.

The Renaissance 1450-1600

• Vocal music was still more important then instrumental. 
• Renaissance music is very emotional music, although to us it seems to be much calmer, it is because the emotion is expressed in a balanced way, without extreme contrasts of dynamics, tone color, and rhythm. 
• Renaissance music has a mostly polyphonic texture.
• As opposed to medieval times, this music has a more full sound, because the bass register was used, expanding the range of music to about four octaves. 
• Each line of melody has rhythmic independence, giving Renaissance music a more flowing rhythm and not a sharply defined beat.  The melodies are also easy to sing because they move along scales with few large leaps.
• Music was becoming more popular during this time. Much of this was due to the invention of the printing press, which could circulate copies of music. 
• The number of composers also began to increase. 
• The Renaissance had the ideal of the “universal man” and believed that every educated person was to be trained in music.  Musicians still worked in the churches, courts, and towns. 
• The size of church choirs grew. But unlike the Middle Ages where just a few soloists performed in the church, an entire male choir would now sing. Music was still important in the church, although it has shifted more to the courts. 
• The kings, princes, and dukes were all fine composers. 
• One court alone might have had ten to sixty composers consisting of vocalists and instrumentalists. 
• There was a music director for each court that would compose and direct the court’s performers. 
• The town musicians would perform for civic processions, weddings, and religious services. 
• Musicians now had a higher status in society with better pay, and they wanted to be known and sought credit for their work.