MEDIEVAL MUSIC: TEACHERS’ GUIDE · Material AICLE. 2º de ESO: Medieval Music (Solucionario) 5 5. REVIEW ACTIVITY There were also female composers known as Trobairitz). Some famous

3Material AICLE. 2º de ESO: Medieval Music (Solucionario)

MEDIEVAL MUSIC: TEACHERS’ GUIDE

1. INTRODUCTION

2. MEDIEVAL MUSIC

ACTIVITY 1

Suggested pieces of music:

Song 1 (Any kind of Gregorian Chant): Silos Monastery Monks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArNf76XxYo

Song 2 (Any kind of pop music)Green Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY

SONG 1: No instruments; Male choir; Monastery; Quiet; Slow, unmarked beat; To relax, for meditation, to sleep.

SONG2: Electric guitar, drums, electric bass; Male voices; Disco, pub; party, concert; Loud; Fast, marked beat; To dance.

ACTIVITY 1

Suggested pieces of music:Fragment 1: Guillame de Machaut “Messe de Notre Dame”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRAYbgdxew

Fragment 2: Jongleurshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJDDte6H-s

Fragment 3: Gregorian Chanthttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwuZaf6WXw

Fragment 4: Troubaritz “Galician-Portuguese Cantiga”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1EDSpz-fE

RELIGIOUS MUSIC: Fragment 1; Fragment 3SECULAR MUSIC: Fragment 2; Fragment 4

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3. MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS MUSIC

ACTIVITY 2

ANSWERS: Fast; instruments; marked-rhythm; women; loud; dance.

ACTIVITY 7

ACTIVITY 10

Gregorian chant; Gregory I; forbidden; neumes; organum; old art; Leonine; Perotin; ars nova; Machaut.

VIDEO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQZvoaMEy8

ACTIVITY 1

ANSWER: There are instruments in all of the images

ACTIVITY 3

TEXT:

During the Middle Ages, music was not only used for religious purposes, it was also used for entertainment.. Non-religious music, is also known as secular music.

Secular music was performed by two kinds of musicians: troubadours and jongleurs.Troubadours were noblemen who composed and sang their own songs, usually about love. They accompanied the song playing an instrument. The lyrics were in their own language. They sang for wealthy people from court to court, and they were very well-considered. They received different names depending on their countries, but troubadour is used as the generic (Troubadours are the most famous and were from the south of France; in the north of France there were Trovères; in Germany, there were Minnesingers;

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5. REVIEW ACTIVITY

There were also female composers known as Trobairitz). Some famous troubadours were William IX Duke of Aquitaine, the English king Richard the Lionheart, and the Spanish king Alfonso X the Wise.

Jongleurs were musicians from a lower social class. They went from village to village, or castle to castle, playing, singing and performing tricks, earning some money for entertaining the nobility. They did not compose the songs they sang, nor write the lyrics.

ACTIVITY 5

ANSWER: Joan Manuel SerratANSWER: They both compose and sing their own songs.

ACTIVITY 6

ANSWER: singer-songwriters

ACROSS:5. secular6. organum7. Latin8. Monk9. Trovairitz11. Jongleur

DOWN:1. neume2. troubadour3. monastery4. monophony10. polyphony12. Lèonin