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characteristics of folk music

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Where were the centers of education and the educated?

1) monasteries 2)

Characteristics of secular music

1) mono/homo/polyphonic 2) strong rhythms, dance-like tunes 3) instruments (lutes, bagpipes, bells, recorders) 4) melodic leaps 5) text - vernacular 6) courtly love, chivalry, news, propaganda

Characteristics of sacred music

1) monophonic 2) unstressed meter 3) unaccompanied vocal 4) smooth contours, movements by steps 5) text in latin 6) religious subjects

1/4 broad classifications of folk instruments

aerophones: winds

2/3 major developments in music

change from monophonic to polyphonic music

4/4 broad classifications of folk instruments

chordophones: strings

3/3 major developments in music

development of the motet

Middle Ages A.D. 476 (800) - 1450

emerging european civilization formed by Roman legacy, germanic tribes, and christian church

2/4 broad classifications of folk instruments

ideophones: hit/scrape (not drums)

3/4 broad classifications of folk instruments

membranophones: drums

Ethnic music

music that is characteristic of a particular culture or group of people (a common people)

1/3 major developments in music

pitch and rhythmic notation

Folk music

the music of the common people of a society or geographical area (the common people)