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Information and resources for medieval music, including both Western and non-Western. Recording suggestions, discussion, and analysis for various styles. Extensive database and links.
The contributions of medieval secular music include many structural devices like poetic forms (the Formes Fixe) and the melodic refrain.
A historic overview of music in the Middle Ages. Includes descriptions of sacred and secular musical traditions.
Listen to the sound of a medieval instrument and then try to determine which instrument, from those pictured, made that sound.
Renaissance and Medieval music and chant...
The term medieval music encompasses European music written during the Middle Ages. This era begins with the fall of the Roman Empire and ends in approximately the middle of the fifteenth century. Establishing the end of the medieval era and the beginning of the Renaissance is admittedly arbitrary; 1...
A categorized listing, with links, of resources available on the Web about Medieval and Renaissance music, including manuscripts and scores, Gregorian Chant, instrumental music and other ...
This is Musica Antiqua's illustrated guide to Medieval and Renaissance Instruments. This contains pictures, descriptions, and the history of the instruments used in playing early music.
The medieval part song developed from plainsong in the church and folk song in the towns and villages.
In an exploration of medieval music, we encounter the the most distant and longest era of "real" musical history.
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