Secular Music of The Medieval Period

Secular

Secular

Being seperated or unassociated with the church or religion

the instruments used in secular music

Harp, Drums & Bagpipes

Characteristics of Secular Songs

1. Written in Monophonic texture

2. Employs more topics

3. Uses traditional Church Modes

4. Native languages are applied

5. Syllabic

6. uses triple meter

7. Texture with one melodic line notation

A famous composer for this type of music

Adam de la Halle (The hunchback)

• Born in france at 1237

• would have been a priest but married

Secular Songs in Germany

1. Minnesang

2. Minnesinger

3. Meistersingers (master singers)

Minnesang

tradition of lyric and song writing in germany

Minnesingers

“singers of love songs”

Minnelied

literature of German poetry and song, was created by minnesingers.

meistersingers (master singers)

successors to minnesingers, they created music called meistergesang

Conducts

Latin Secular Songs

Poet-Musicans who wrote secular songs

Troubadours and Trouveres

The Categories of poetry

1. Planh

2. Chanson de toile

3. Pastourelle

4. Chanson de geste

5. Canso

6. Tenso

7. Siventes and Enueg

8. Aube

Planh

lamanent on death of a distinguished person

Chanson de toile

spinning song

Pastourelle

Dialouge between knight and Shepherdess

Chanson de geste

Narrative poetry with extraordinary characters

Canso

Poem of love

Tenso

Poem in the form of a dialouge

Sirventes and Enueg

Poems that use sarcasm in exposing follies

Aube

Song about a friend watching over lovers