Medieval ReviewMake a timeline, 800-1400, that includesPOLITICS: Charlemagne, Battle of Hastings, plagueARCHITECTURE: Romanesque (approx.), Gothic startMUSIC: codification of CHANT, STAFF, NOTATION OF RHYTHM, ARS NOVA

Hildegard

800 1100 1400

ROMANESQUE

STAFF

1000CHANTstandardized

RHYTHMNOTATION

1250Rhythmic

modes

PerotinVideruntOmnes1200

ARS NOVA1300

improvised organum

GOTHIC (1150)

CHARLEMAGNE

MONASTERIES UNIVERSITY& CATHEDRAL

1066

Battle ofHastings

Culture of The Book

PLAGUE, SCHISM

E/W SchismFEUDALISM Decline of Church as

political power

PERSPECTIVE(GIOTTO) dematerialization continues

Where have we been?

Music Identifications• CHANT• HILDEGARD• PEROTIN• ARS NOVA

• Large intervals• this particular recording: women singing

• duple subdivision• jumble of texts in this example (a motet)

• monophony• Early Medieval• monastic life

• triple subdivision• (florid organum)• extreme melisma• POLYPHONY!• Viderunt omnes

Machaut must go on, but not on the next test

Machaut – from Messe de Notre Dame

Lush, 4-part texture

Harmonies unusual to our ear – pre-tonal

Who is depicted:

Doing what:

And that reflects the:

That we associate with:

When:

The 4 evangelists

Writing the GospelCulture of the Book

monasteriesMedieval

p. 132 Gospel Book of Charlemagne

see text p. 146

Name:

style:

elements:

St. SerninRomanesque

- round arches- a few narrow windows- heavy

FEUDALISM

WHAT:

DEPICTS:

WHEN:

POLITICAL/SOCIAL ORGANIZATION:

Bayeux Tapestry

Battle of Hastings

1066

p. 137-138

Style:

starts:

who:

elements of style:

Pointed archesStained glassFlying buttressesribbed vaultingVerticality

Gothic

1150

Abbot Suger

p. 162-166

Who is depicted:

Doing what:

And that reflects the:

That we associate with:

When:

St. Matthew

Writing the GospelCulture of the Book

monasteriesMedieval