Taylor Wegemeyer
Middle Ages Research
TOPIC: MUSIC

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  • 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.
BOOK:THE ATLAS OF THE MEDIEVAL WORLD