MUS 1302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Melisma, Virga, Mediatrix
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Great musicians (025:014), lecture two: aug. 28, 2008. Christianity, like its ancestor judaism, is a social institution with a very long and important written history! Monks, nuns, priest, and other church officials had to be literate. Great accomplishment of the early medieval period was the unification of the christian church: as the roman catholic church. Medieval period, 450 (or so)-1450 (fifth through fifteenth centuries): Basically, from the decline of the roman empire (c. 476) to the invention of the printing press. Need to separate this long period into the areas of knowledge for this class: (1) first extant mss. of music appear in the 9th century (2) musical innovations of the 12th century (3) musical innovations of the 14th century. Earliest extant manuscripts of music date from circa (c. ) 800 (the ninth century): Sacred culture = anything intended to serve as part of worship. Secular culture = everything else (including art for entertainment only)
