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Medieval Musical Styles: Troubadours, Trouvères, and Instrumental Innovations

Explore the diverse musical styles of Troubadours and Trouvères, the Courtly Love theme, and the instrumental innovations of the Medieval era. Discover the monophonic songs of Moniot d’Arras and Guillaume Machaut's polyphonic compositions. Learn about the Ars Nova movement and the different categories of instrumental music.

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Medieval Musical Styles: Troubadours, Trouvères, and Instrumental Innovations

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  1. Announcements • Activity 1 due 1/30

  2. Play of the Virtues • Style: • Originally monophonic • Wide range • Distinction between the different voices in musical style?

  3. Secular Music • Travelling entertainers: Goliards and jougleures (mostly lower classes) • Musician-poets: Troubadors (Trouveres, Trobaritz)

  4. Troubadours,Trouvères • Troubadours: southern France • Language: Provençal • Trouvères: Northern France • Language: Old French • Members of the upper classes • Courtly Love theme • Unattainable woman on a pedestal

  5. Trouvère song • Ce fut en mai (Listening Guide 4) • Composer:Moniot d’Arras (fl. 1213-39) • Originally monophonic • On recording, accompanied by Medieval stringed instruments (vielle, psaltery, dulcimer)

  6. Trouvère song • Meter? • Triple • Form? • Strophic form • each verse is AABB • Corresponds loosely to rhyme scheme

  7. Ars Nova-14th-c. France • Means “New skill” • What was new about it? • Innovations in rhythm and notation

  8. Guillaume Machaut • Most important 14th-century composer • Wrote poetry, songs. • Songs are polyphonic • Songs in fixed forms (very specific relationships between poetry and music) • Music follows form of poetry

  9. Machaut song • Puis qu’en oubli (listening guide 5) • Text on Courtly love theme • Musical form • RONDEAUX form • A B aA ab A B • Capital letters are repetitions of text and music • Small letters are musical repetitions with a new text • Corresponds to rhyme scheme

  10. Instrumental music • Largely improvised • Categories: • Soft (stringed instruments) • Vielle • Loud (wind instruments) • Shawm (ancestor of modern oboe) • Sackbut (ancestor of modern trombone • Also had percussion and organs

  11. Instrumental Music • Royal estampie #4 (listening guide 6) • Originally monophonic, new parts added in this recording (mainly a drone). • Open and closed endings

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