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Medieval Arts were represented by the Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic Era. Byzantine art made to glorify the Christian Religion and to express its mystery. It was filled with spiritual symbolism and illustrated a love of splendour. It was a combination of Eastern (decorative art forms) and Classical Western Art (naturalistic art). Romanesque art was characterized by its very vigorous style in painting and sculpture, lavishly decorated manuscripts and retained many basic features of Roman Architectural styles. It was greatly influenced by Byzantine Art with a highly innovative and coherent style. Gothic Art reinforced symbolic meaning.
During the Middle Ages, most of the music was vocal and unaccompanied. The church wanted to keep music pure and solemn because it was less distracting. The oldest Medieval musical instrument was the human voice. The spread of Christianity in the Dark Ages and the early Medieval period led to the popularity of hymns and secular songs.
monophony is the simplest of musical textures, consisting of a melody (or "tune"), typically sung by a single singer or played by a single instrument player (e.g., a flute player) without accompanying harmony or chords.
Many folk songs and traditional songs are monophonic.
Monophony, musical texture made up of a single unaccompanied melodic line. It is a basic element of virtually all musical cultures.
Most music has multiple layers that form both melody and harmony.
Listen to your favorite pop song.
Chances are it has a singer, some background instruments like a guitar and bass, and a percussion layer. Which layer is the melody?
Melody is the most memorable part of music.
It's what you would sing. If a piece of music has a vocalist, most often the singer's line is the melody.
If you strip away all the other layers, you get MONOPHONIC TEXTURE.
The image shows possible musical layers in a song. The vocal line (red) is the melody. The guitar (green) plays harmonic accompaniment in the form of chords, and the bass (blue) plays a lower harmony line. The drum pattern (purple) is neither melody nor harmony.
Not quite. There are several types of monophony. Most people can only sing one pitch at a time, and so if you are singing by yourself without musical accompaniment, you are singing in monophonic texture. What if your friend joins you? Now there are two voices singing the same melody. Is it still monophonic? If you are both singing the same pitches at the same time, then yes, it is still monophonic. If your friend starts to sing a different melody or a harmony at the same time, it is no longer monophonic.
Look at this image. In the first example, both voices follow the same melody at the same time, making it monophonic. In the second example, the pitches are different, so it is not monophonic.
It doesn't have to be two singers. You can have a singer and a flute, an oboe and a trumpet, or all four of them together! In monophony, there is no limit to how many voices or instruments there can be. If they are singing and playing the same notes, it is monophony. This is also called singing or playing in unison.
a short musical passage in two or more phrases used for singing unmetrical words; a psalm or canticle sung to such music.
(in plainsong) a note or group of notes to be sung to a single syllable. a sign indicating a neume.
Kyrie- a short liturgical prayer that begins with or consists of the words "Lord, have mercy“
Gloria- a Christian liturgical hymn or formula beginning (in the Latin text) with Gloria. the hymn beginning Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory be to God in the highest), forming a set part of the Mass. the doxology beginning Gloria Patris (Glory be to the Father), used after psalms and in formal prayer (e.g. in the rosary).
Credo- Credo comes straight from the Latin word meaning "I believe", and is the first word of many religious credos, or creeds, such as the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Sanctus definition, the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
English Lamb of God, designation of Jesus Christ in Christian liturgical usage. ... It is based on the saying of John the Baptist: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
Kyrie- a short liturgical prayer that begins with or consists of the words "Lord, have mercy“
Gloria- a Christian liturgical hymn or formula beginning (in the Latin text) with Gloria. the hymn beginning Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory be to God in the highest), forming a set part of the Mass. the doxology beginning Gloria Patris (Glory be to the Father), used after psalms and in formal prayer (e.g. in the rosary).
Credo- Credo comes straight from the Latin word meaning "I believe", and is the first word of many religious credos, or creeds, such as the Apostles' Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Sanctus definition, the hymn beginning “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts,” with which the Eucharistic preface culminates.
English Lamb of God, designation of Jesus Christ in Christian liturgical usage. ... It is based on the saying of John the Baptist: “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!”
In the Middle Ages, troubadours were the shining knights of poetry (in fact, some were ranked as high as knights in the feudal class structure). Troubadours made chivalry a high art, writing poems and singing about chivalrous love, creating the mystique of refined damsels, and glorifying the gallant knight on his charger. Troubadour was a fitting name for such creative artists;
