Audience During Medieval Times

In the Middle Ages, even the higher class people, such as lords and ladies (wives of the lords), faced adversities. Lords and ladies were people who lived in manors or castles and had servants called serfs and peasants to work for them. Although lords and ladies faced less hardships than their servants because of their status, they still had difficulties in life. During the Middle Ages, lords frequently trained for battle and risked their lives in wars.

In the Seventeenth-century a new style of composition had its origin in Rome, Italy. This style is known as the cantata da camera or secular cantata. The study of the cantata shows that there were some problems which remained and could not be solved due to the huge numbers of compositions during the baroque era. Vocal chamber music performed in private for the wealthy at their houses, became the most common or popular social entertainment way of the moment. The performing group for this entertainment was cooperated by one, two or three voices accompanied by the basso continuo (which was rarely a pair of solo strings). Something that was crucial for the popularity of this entertainment was the popularity already

Mood is the affections (to impress the mid or move the feelings of our emotions, emotional response). Composers of this time shaped or molded a musical language to depict the affections. Music is written to fit the needs of society in our always changing world. Church music during this time was very elaborate and music was usually only heard in the churches and if you were wealth enough during that time you could go hear music in public opera houses. Religious music was a huge part of baroque era; it saw the creation of tonality, made changes in musical notation, and developed new instrumental playing techniques.

The Opera is described as the relationship between words and music. Opera is dramatic staged secular vocal work with orchestral accompaniment .Consisting of alternating recitatives, arias, and chorus numbers. Soloists, solo ensembles, choruses, dancing, dramatic action, costumes, staging are all components of opera. It was important because it added interest in dramas and music and it created interest is homophonic texture. Cantata was another important Baroque style. Cantata extended solo or choral work. It was created for Lutheran worship service. Cantatas include harmonized chorales, polyphonic choruses, arias, recitatives, solo ensembles, and instrumental accompaniment. Oratorio is dramatic work for chorus, solo voices, and orchestra. It is similar to cantata except it is longer and to a larger scale. Most were based on biblical texts to teach and entertain. Chamber music works for solo instruments performing together in small ensembles. Trio Sonatas were important chamber music pieces during the Baroque Period. Church sonatas would be performed in church. Chamber sonatas were meant for concert performance. Finally, orchestra varied in size and instrumentation. This style was favored by royalty and wealthy families. Most court orchestra were made up only bowed stringed instruments although woodwinds and others were gradually

Musicians in the Renaissance society are now professionals and were supported by the church, city and state as well as the royal and aristocratic courts. The rise of the merchant class brought new fans to music professionals. With the advent of cheaper printing, music books became available and affordable making musical literacy spread dramatically.

Have you ever thought about the differences between women today and back in the day? How about all the way back to medieval times? The differences outweigh the similarities big time. Some of the major differences are the jobs they had back then, their morals, their way of dress, and the rights they had in comparison to us. Woman during medieval times were very different from the women today.

The Middle Ages was the period in European history that came between ancient and modern times. It lasted from about ad 500 to about 1500. The Christian church played an important part in the history of the Middle Ages.

Whereas composers of the Renaissance were in the service of church, most of the composers of the Baroque were employed by the wealthy ruling class. This system is called Patronage System. Monarchs and princes were the most important patrons of a lavish musical life (Wold, Martin, Miller, and Cykler 1990, 82). Composers were hired to compose music for their courts, and therefore, this system limited the freedom of the

Life at a medieval university for clerics was in many regards similar to our present day college experience. When college was in session, life was basically split into two categories; life in the books, and life outside the books if you will. Scholars needed to focus their attention to the tasks at hand during learning hours. As we know today, the more time you spend studying, the better grades you’ll achieve. On the other hand, scholars needed a release from the daily grind of constant academic involvement. This may have included some popular pastimes such as drinking, gambling, and wreaking havoc downtown (nothing a modern student would do). The scholars experienced many of the problems that modern day collegians deal with as well.

During the Medieval time period that Canterbury Tales was written in, there was a general depiction of women that they weren’t even looked at as humans, but looked at as objects. Women were thought of as weak, untrustworthy, and even less intelligent beings than men. Chaucer did not necessarily agree with the general consensus of women during the time period. Now there are tales that go along with the general impression of women, but there are also signs that Chaucer looked at women for what they really are and he might have saw them as equal beings. Chaucer was a great mind and that mind was far past his time, as he went against the tide when he wrote and he was not afraid to write whatever came to his head. Canterbury tales can show us what women had to go through in medieval times, and through Chaucer’s tales we can see what he thought of how women were were perceived and treated.

There were several types of music in different settings. There was theater music, in theater music it went with the play to signify love or dramatic effect. There was the court music, and in court music it was more for high society and a large amount of the music was played with strings. There was street music, which was for the traveler or passersby. Lastly and most important there was church music. This was the most important because of the churches being such a big part of life back then. (music)” among the famed composers of the time were William Byrd and Thomas Tallies.”

From 1400 to 1600 A.D., the Renaissance was a period of a rediscovery of Greek ideals for musicians to explore possibilities of their art. It was during this time that ideas were able to better circulate, because individualism began to increase, and the printing of music helped to preserve and distribute musical ideas (History). Also, as opposed to the medieval period, the Renaissance began to expand upon the type of sound that was created by adding the voices of women in choirs, as well as expanding instrumental music. The texture of music also began to change, with homophonic and polyphonic compositions. Sacred vocal polyphony was used rather than monophony in the form of masses and motets, while secular pieces also included madrigals and songs. Instrumental pieces usually were short during this time, and were for dancing (History).

The Medieval Ages that descended upon the Europeans following the deconstruction and devolution of the formerly grand institutions of the Roman Empire left a world darkened to the eyes of history. The world lost touch with simple concepts to a modern history student of writing, economy, culture, and government—the mainstay of that which we cannot see ourselves without—civilization. What was left of Europe was a state of chaos. In all other periods of human history I have studied there were similarities among them from which I could draw conclusions upon the condition of the respective times. The Text helped to give order to the progression of European history from the ancient to the modern drawing

The feelings that the Ancient Romans had towards music could be described as ambivalent. They admired it and at the same time, they condemned it. Music, nevertheless, played a role in Roman society that, as time passed, became less and less important to the Romans. As a result, much of the information about music in Ancient Rome has been lost in time. However what has been discovered about this topic is quite fascinating, in spite of what it is lacking. The subsequent paragraphs will explain some of the aspects of Roman life regarding music. This includes the history of music in Ancient Rome, the instruments that the Romans played, the uses of music in their society and the impact that music in Rome has had on the music of today.

This information in this paragraph talks about the life that the people in the middle ages live. They did not have the types of clothes that we have today. Now people for game they use electronic devices.Whatever the people ate it really depended on what was there level on the Feudalism Pyramid. Sometimes peasants did not have anything to eat because they were so poor and it was hard for them to afford food. In the other hand the people who were at the top of the pyramid also known as Royalty had a lot of food to eat. While the people at the top had good food like vegetables,wine,meat the people on the bottom did not have good food such as bread and sometimes water if they could find any for that one day.If people think about it it is like the book A long walk to water because in the Middle ages it was hard for them to get water just like in Africa.