MUSIC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gregorian Chant, Plainsong, Religious Text
10 Oct 2016
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Term music itself derives from the muses: 9 daughters of zeus who inspired the various arts (calliope epic poetry, euterpe lyric poetry and what we would call music. Plato described what the middle ages later referred to as the (cid:862)(cid:395)uad(cid:396)i(cid:448)iu(cid:373)(cid:863: four essential liberal arts; music, astronomy, arithmetic, and geometry. T(cid:449)o (cid:271)(cid:396)oadest fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374)al (cid:272)atego(cid:396)ies fo(cid:396) (cid:373)usi(cid:272) a(cid:396)e (cid:862)sa(cid:272)(cid:396)ed(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)se(cid:272)ula(cid:396)(cid:863) Sacred music before middle ages and all kinds of secular music going on in middle ages (work songs, singing in taverns, love songs, nursery songs and lullabies) Sacred: religious text, anything to do with the church. Secular: everything else (e. g. dancing, love songs, tavern) Earliest music we know anything about is sacred music of the day because of a single critical development: notation. Sophisticated system for writing music down began to be developed in the church in early middle ages: need to standardize the liturgy or order and structure of service, attributed to pope gregory (590-604)
