MUSIC TWO TYPES OF MUSIC

 SECULIAR
MUSIC OF MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, BAROQUE PERIODS – made of folk songs and ballads which are
sung by wandering musicians called Troubadours.
MEDIEVAL PERIOD (700-1400) - Most songs during this period are about love
or great valor in battle.
- The Christian church influenced Europe’s culture and - sang and accompanied with all kinds of
political affairs. instruments.
- Consists of songs, instrumental pieces and liturgical
music.  RELIGIOUS
- Liturgical means SACRED and is performed during - performed w/o instrument accompaniment.
religious rite of worship - sang and chanted by Monks
- Includes solely vocal music, such Gregorian Chants and - music is called Plainchant or Gregorian Chant.
Choral Music, solely instrumental music, music that uses
both voices and instruments. MEDIEVAL MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
- Gregorian chants were sung by Monks during Catholic - Most popular instrument is the “lute”
Mass. - PERCUSSION INSTRUMENTS (drums, cymbals, bells)
- The Mass is a reenactment of Christ Last Supper, - WIND INSTRUMENTS (horns and flutes)
intended to provide a spiritual connection between man
and God. RENAISSANCE MUSIC (1400-1600)
- Musical texture of the Medieval Period in
MONOPHONIC TEXTURE = one note sounding at a - ‘renaitre’  rebirth, revival, and rediscovery
time. - Age of discovery and Exploration
Example: - Renaissance music became popular as entertainment
Row, row, row your boat. and activity for amateurs and educated.
Mary had a Little Lamb - Influence of Roman Catholic Church started to decline.
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - Secular music became more prominent in the
Alphabet Renaissance period.
Happy Birthday - This period was a time of great political and social
upheaval – events such as the Protestant Reformation
Pinoy Monophonic Songs which had a huge impact upon the life of the Western
Bahay Kubo World.
Ako ay Pilipino - Protestant Reformation  music was written for use in
Kumbaya Protestant churches.
Lupang Hinirang -
MUSICAL FORMS - Various performance styles tactics were used to further
 LITURGICAL STYLE enhance the expressiveness of the music.
Examples: Flautists used flattement, or “finger vibrato,”
Motet - Vocal performers used prolongation to lengthen certain
Madrigale Spirituale sections of pieces.
The Mass -
The Laude Characteristics
1. Hight levels of ornamentation
 SECULAR MUSIC 2. Intricate and complex details
Examples: 3. Heavily contrasting elements
Secular Motet 4. High movement, especially compared to the music of other time
Motet-Chanson periods.
Secular-Madrigal 5. Sonorous, continuous bass line, which allowed the higher
Ballade voices of the music to be as expressive as the composer
Rondo wished.
6. Comparably frequent transitions back and forth between keys.
Instruments
- Violin
BAROQUE PERIOD (1600-1750) - Viola
- Cello
- “Baroque” is a French word. It is a translation of the - Pianoforte
Portuguese word for “broken pearl” which is “barrocco”. - Harpsichord
- The result of the formation of Baroque music was an - Organ
increased formality in the separation between secular
and sacred music.
- Increased audience for secular music
- Baroque pieces across Europe shared the same
characteristics, which are all meant to create a
grandiose, elaborate musical mosaics.
- Heavily ornamented style of music that came out of the
Renaissance.
- The genre gets its name from the Portuguese word for
‘broken pear’, which is a particularly apt way of
describing this style of music.
- Heavily instrumental at both the highest and lowest
notes.