Music

Taylor Wegemeyer Middle Ages Research TOPIC: MUSIC  . BOOK:THE ATLAS OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
 * They yous music in the church.
 *  There was to main types of music in the Middle Ages.
 *  Religious music was sung and played during worship.
 *  The non-religious music included singing and dancing for entertainment.
 *  Peasants in the Middle Ages played simple homemade instruments, including pipes made from **reeds,** bones, animal horns, or wood, and drums made from wood and animal skins.
 *  The notes for music were written with square and diamond-shaped symbols on lines above the words.
 *  By the later Middle Ages, learning to play a instruments, such as lutes, was part of noble children’s education.
 *  The first religious music was called plainsong.
 *  The choirs sang chants, based on passages from the bible that used the same notes and were not accompanied instruments.
 *  Few examples of medieval musical instruments have survived. However, we know from paintings and book illustrations that people played a wide range of instruments, many of which were ancestors of those that we know today.