Ancient Greek & Rome, Dark Ages, Middle Ages/Medieval Ages

Middle Ages/Medieval Ages 1350-1450 (1450-1550)

• 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

Lute

• 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)

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