Taylor Wegemeyer
Middle Ages Research
TOPIC: MUSIC .
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, weknow from paintings and book illustrations that people played a wide range ofinstruments, many of which were ancestors of those that we know today.
Middle Ages Research
TOPIC: MUSIC
.
- 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