Music of the Medieval Period

Opening Prayer
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Content Standards
Demonstrates
understanding of
characteristics features of
Medieval, Renaissance and
Baroque period music.
Performance Standards
Performs selected songs from
Medieval, Renaissance &
Baroque periods:
a. chant d. chorales
b. madrigals e. troubadour
c. excerpts from oratorio
Objectives:
1. Describe the musical elements
of selected the vocal and
instrumental music of the
Medieval Period.
2.Identify the characteristics of
Medieval period.
Music is……
not just a form of entertainment
but is an essential element in many
of the activities of daily life and
plays a prominent part in most
rituals.
Music is……
These include life-cycle events, such
as birth, initiation, marriage, and death;
events of the agricultural cycle, such as
planting, transplanting, harvesting, and
threshing; and a variety of work songs.
Western Music

The history of Western

Classical Music is time
divided from Medieval to
Contemporary Period.
Western Music
This music describes the musical
elements of selected vocal and
instrumental music of the Medieval
Period (700-1400), Renaissance Period
(1400-1600) and Baroque Period
(1685-1750).
Pre – Assessment: Choose your answer from the box
and identify the characteristics of music by a pictures
according to its period. Write MM – Medieval Music,
RM – Renaissance Music, BM – Baroque Music

Medieval Music
Renaissance Music

Baroque Music
MM – Medieval Music, RM- Renaissance Music,
BM – Baroque Music

1.
MM – Medieval Music, RM- Renaissance Music,
BM – Baroque Music

2.
MM – Medieval Music, RM- Renaissance Music,
BM – Baroque Music

3.
MM – Medieval Music, RM- Renaissance Music,
BM – Baroque Music

4.
MM – Medieval Music, RM- Renaissance Music,
BM – Baroque Music

5.
Medieval Period (700-1400)
Sacred Music of the Medieval Period:
The Gregorian Chant

Characteristics of the Gregorian Chant

• Monophonic – single melodic line.

• Free Meter
• Modal – the church modes was the existing
scale used
Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian (not used n the liturgy as it was
called the mode of the devil
• Usually based on Latin Liturgy

• Use of Neume Notation

- is the basic element of Western and
Eastern systems of musical notation prior to the
invention of five-line staff notation.
Activity Number 1: “Isang Larawan, Isang Sagot”
Direction: Identify the pictures that is being show
and arrange the scrambled letter below of each
picture.

1. AITNL TILGUYR 2. PONMHIOCON

3. UENEMS 4. REFE TEMRE

5. OMDES
Secular Music of the Medieval period:
The Troubadour Music

During the latter part of the Medieval

Period, secular music which was not bound by
catholic traditions emerged. Most of these
songs were performed across Europe by
groups of musicians called Troubadours.
 
Characteristics of the Troubadour Music
 
• Usually Monophonic Texture – single
melody/ no harmony

• Sometimes with improvised accompaniment

– Instruments: Pipe, Psaltery, Lyre, Shawn,
Sackbut, Vielle, Harp and Tabor
Instruments: Pipe, Psaltery, Lyre, Shawn,
Sackbut, Vielle, Harp and Tabor
• Tells about chivalry and
court love – The story of
Robin Hood was popular
• Originated in France
• Written in French language
Activity No. 2 “Describe me Please 
Directions: Identify the pictures below and
determine if it is Monophonic or Polyphonic
Texture and if it is Chivalry or Love.
Example:
 
Texture:
Monophonic 1st Music with picture (Visualization)
Theme: Love
 
1. Troubadour Music
 

2. “A Chantar”
 

3.The Story of Robin Hood

Post - Assessment
1. This Musical texture has only one melody
sand and no harmony.
a. Polyphonic
b. Monophonic
c. Homophonic
d. Heterophonic
Post - Assessment
2. This church mode during the Medieval period
was not used because of the reason, it was called
the mode of the devil.
a. Lydian
b. Ionian
c. Dorian
d. Locrian
Post - Assessment
3. It was originated in France; this type of
music was written in a French language.
a. Troubadour Music
b. Gregorian Music
c. Mass
d. Madrigal
Post - Assessment
4. What language was typical used in the
Liturgy of the Mass during the Medieval Period?
a. Spanish
b. French
c. Latin
d. Greek
Post - Assessment
5. A sign for one or a group of successive
musical pitches, predecessor of modern musical 
notes.
a . Notes
b. Neume
c. Key Signature
d. Free Meter
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