- Black Death --Bubenic Plague.It lasted for hundreds of years and killed a lot of people.
Dark Ages 400-1200
- Controlled by "Holy Roman Empire"
- "Holy Roman Empire" stole marbles from buildings that were built in Ancient Greek & Rome period to build new churches.
- Pope Gregory I made a collection of religious music which is called Gregorian Chants or Plainchant. The religious music that Pope Gregory I collected are monophonic. He put all the songs into a book named Liber Usualis which contains over 800 chants.The text of the songs are all about "God", "Maria", "Jesus", etc.
- All chants are in Latin
- Religious music -- sacred music. Secular--non religious music.
- Troubadours/Trouveres/ (wondering musicians)
- There was a women named Hilegard Von Bingam. She was the only known woman composer until Renaissance period.
- All the music is in the texture of monophoty.
Ancient Greek & Rome 800 B.C
- The people in that time sometimes would get together talk and dance like the parties we have nowadays.
- They wore Jacuzzi.
- They had elevators but without eletricity.
- They had running water.
- They had a lot of beautiful mosaic and marble.
- The Aulos is flute.
- The first instrument is lute.
- They had polyphonic music. ( contains many different melodies)
 |
| Lute |
Kabi
