The Middle Ages was a dreadful time in human history‚ According to the Background Essay it states that‚ “During the Middle Ages‚ the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope were the primary players in Europe. The custodians of culture - that is‚ the people who owned most of the books and made handwritten copies of the Bible - were priests who often lived a closed existence inside the walls of monasteries. Schools were few. Illiteracy was widespread.”(Background Essay). With the creation of the printing
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Nicole Williams MUS 110 IN2 Unit 2 Writing Assignment Some distinctive stylistic features of the Middle Ages were monophonic styles and polyphonic styles. Church modes were the scales of western music during the Middle Ages. They are like the major and minor scales that consist of seven tones and an eighth tone that duplicates the first octave higher. The Gregorian chant was the official music for the Roman Catholic Church for over a thousand years. The Gregorian chant has some elements
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DBQ Middle Ages 1) There was great rebirth of literature and the art after a thousand of cultural sterility. Writers from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries related themselves to the Italian writers of the renaissance. These writes were apart of the middle ages. Also they turned for inspiration to the civilization of the Roman and Greek antiquity. 2) The use of this one term to refer to an age indicates the belief that all diverse phenomena at that age intellectual‚ artistic‚ religious
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Middle Ages Dates: 1. What was going historically during this era? What was life like? 2. Who or what had the power? 3. Who were learned or literate? 4. Who were allowed to sing in church? 5. Most of the music that was notated during the middle ages was sacred or secular? 6. Was most medieval music vocal? 7. What is Gregorian Chant? Discuss its origin‚ texture‚ melody‚ rhythm‚ text. How did it receive its name? What is its purpose? 8. When chant was notated‚ was the rhythm notated or
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Natasha Leon Music class Study guide Study guide 1 1. Sound- begins with the vibration of an object‚ such as a table that is pounded or a string that is plucked or bowed. 2. Music- is part of this world of sound‚ an art based on the organization of sounds in time. 3. Pitch- is the relative highness or lowness that we hear in a sound. 4. Interval- "Distance" in pitch between any two tones. 5. How are vibration and pitch related? - The faster the vibrations‚ the higher the
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similarities in the way people lived in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. 1. Middle Ages; people had a sense of place‚ community was important. Renaissance; People wanted more out of life‚ individualism was emphasized. In both periods‚ social classess existed‚ but they were less rigid in the Renaissance. 2. Middle Ages; Feudalism. Renaissance; Rise of towns and cities. Both; universities‚ the only difference being the curriculum. 3. Middles Ages; Pessimism‚ God was to be feared and everything
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The Middle Ages had many interesting characteristics concerning the literature of that time period. The important literary works “incorporated elements and values drawn from different and conflicting traditions (Patterson 1143). For every opinion‚ there was another opinion to counter it. Many of the pieces of literature at this time had contradictory ideas in them or had competing interests (Patterson 1144). The literature of this time shows us that “many people took the central doctrine of
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In the 500’s‚ a period known as the Middle Ages spread throughout Europe. During this time‚ interests of society were religious‚ social classes were highly segregated‚ and inquiries in science were disapproved of. In 1348‚ the people of this period experienced a widespread epidemic known as the Black Plague. After the plague‚ people began to lose their faith in God because they believed He had failed to protect them and allowed them die. The plague killed more than one-third of Europe’s population
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3/3/13 S.S. DBQ Per. 9 The Middle Ages are a period of European history from around 476 A.D. to 1453 A.D. when society and culture declined. The middle Ages is believed to be started from the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and was ended by the start of the European Renaissance. There are several key factors that led to the end of The Middle Ages other than the start of the Renaissance. The Black Plague and The Crusades undeniably led to the end of the Middle Ages because of the decrease of
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believed that the Middle Ages were merely a period of no change or advancement that bridged the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance. However‚ the theme of the excerpt from James M. Powell’s The Civilization of the West is that‚ contrary to this belief‚ the time of the Middle Ages was actually a time of progression. Powell states that political‚ economic‚ social‚ and cultural advancements were made during this time‚ and helped pave the way for the Renaissance and the structure
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