2. TROUBADOUR
• was a composer and performer of songs during the Middle Ages in
Europe. Beginning with William IX of Aquitaine.
• the troubadours would become a veritable movement in the history of
medieval literature, in addition to being one of the largest movements
in secular medieval music.
• They were the first poets on record to write in the vernacular,
eschewing the Latin and Greek which had dominated the literature of
Western Europe for over a millennium.
• They are secular performers from North of France.
4. LUTE
• A lute is a stringed instrument, and was one
of the most commonly played instruments of
European music in the Renaissance era (1300-
1600.)
• With its wooden and pear-shaped body, it looks
like a cross between a mandolin (commonly used
in Bluegrass music) and an acoustic guitar, but
has a crooked neck.
6. BAROCCO
• The term Baroque probably ultimately derived from the Italian word
barocco, which philosophers used during the Middle Ages to describe
an obstacle in schematic logic.
• Subsequently the word came to denote any contorted idea or involuted
process of thought.
• Another possible source is the Portuguese word barroco (Spanish
barrueco), used to describe an irregular or imperfectly shaped
pearl, and this usage still survives in the jeweler’s term baroque pearl.
