Music In The Middle Ages
How Music Was Preformed
Music in the Middle Ages helped to change the daily lives of people. Music was usually preformed in churches but also other areas. Music was first preformed in unison. The pope in church also often preformed the music. Music generally consisted of the secular music of the church. Arab love songs influenced music. The songs and notes were usually the same length and often played in the key of C.
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Different Types Of Instruments
There were many instruments in the middle age. The instruments could be sorted into three different types of instruments and there were wind instruments string instruments and percussion instruments. Many instruments are still used today like the harp, drums, fiddle, flute, and the trumpet. The most popular instrument used in the middle ages was a 20 stringed instrument that was called the harp. the drum was made from a hallow tree trunk, clay or metal that was covered by skins of water animals. There are many more instruments still used today that were used in the middle ages.
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- Wind instruments
- Flute - Trumpet - Pipe - Shawn - Recorder - Bagpipe - Crumhorn - Gemshorn - Lizard |
- Stringed instruments
- Harp - Fiddle - Rebec - Psaltery - Dulcimer - Hurdy-gurdy - Viol |
- Percussion instruments
- Drums - Cymbals - Triangle - Tambourine |
Composers
Music helped to change cultures in many places. Many instruments that were used in the middle ages are still used today. There were few composers that are still known today. Hilegard Von Blingen was a middle age composer that was born 1098, Bermershein Germany. He was also known as Blessed Hildegard. Music would not have been the same today if they did not have music in the middle ages.
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