Week 2: The Medieval Age
Terms
Divine Office, Opus Dei or liturgy- sung cycle of prayer (4 or more hours a day)
Lauds- Morning; Vespers- Sunset; Compline- Last service before bedtime
Monophony- one voice, unaccompanied melody line
Polyphony-more than one voice, each with its own melodic line
Pedal- repeated sustained note
Perfect intervals: fourth, fifth, octave
Dissonance- intervals that create a feeling of pain, confusion or agitation
Consonance- intervals that create a sense of harmony, rest, beauty and ease
A Perfect Fifth (Kaamalot)- comedic videotape about the development of harmony
Pythagoras and Orpheus
Early Christian frescoes of Christ as Orpheus
Harmony of the Spheres
St. Benedict
Hildegard of Bingen
Dante
Robert Fludd
The rise of Western monasticism
Ora et labora: The Rule of St. Benedict
Psalm 139
Hildegard of Bingen “Ordo Virtutem" (The Play of the Virtues)
Pilgrimage and Monasteries:
The Llibre Vermell (Montserrat, Spain)
Carmina Burana (Goliards in Germany)
Cantigas de Santa Maria (Santiago Compostella in Spain):
Cycle of 420 songs gathered together and/or composed by King Alfonso X, "El Sabio" in praise of the Virgin Mary
Chartres Cathedral and the Seven Liberal Arts
Being able to see the sacred in each of these seven topics was the pre-requisite for studying theology:
Grammar (Latin)
Rhetoric
Logic
Music
Arithmetic
Geometry
Astronomy
Fas et Nefas- Song about Right and Wrong from the 13th century Carmina Burana
In Taberna- drinking song from Carmina Burana
Recommended Viewing and Recordings
Into Great Silence- film about a year in the life of Chartreuse monastery, France
Vision- German film about the life of Hildegard of Bingen
LLibre Vermell
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Below are two extremes of the Medieval era- the sublime Cantiga No.100," Santa Maria,Strella Do Dia from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, performed by Hesperion XX under Jordi Savall, and the raucous Medieval drinking song "In Taberna", performed by the Clemenic Consort
Terms
Divine Office, Opus Dei or liturgy- sung cycle of prayer (4 or more hours a day)
Lauds- Morning; Vespers- Sunset; Compline- Last service before bedtime
Monophony- one voice, unaccompanied melody line
Polyphony-more than one voice, each with its own melodic line
Pedal- repeated sustained note
Perfect intervals: fourth, fifth, octave
Dissonance- intervals that create a feeling of pain, confusion or agitation
Consonance- intervals that create a sense of harmony, rest, beauty and ease
A Perfect Fifth (Kaamalot)- comedic videotape about the development of harmony
Pythagoras and Orpheus
Early Christian frescoes of Christ as Orpheus
Harmony of the Spheres
St. Benedict
Hildegard of Bingen
Dante
Robert Fludd
The rise of Western monasticism
Ora et labora: The Rule of St. Benedict
Psalm 139
Hildegard of Bingen “Ordo Virtutem" (The Play of the Virtues)
Pilgrimage and Monasteries:
The Llibre Vermell (Montserrat, Spain)
Carmina Burana (Goliards in Germany)
Cantigas de Santa Maria (Santiago Compostella in Spain):
Cycle of 420 songs gathered together and/or composed by King Alfonso X, "El Sabio" in praise of the Virgin Mary
Chartres Cathedral and the Seven Liberal Arts
Being able to see the sacred in each of these seven topics was the pre-requisite for studying theology:
Grammar (Latin)
Rhetoric
Logic
Music
Arithmetic
Geometry
Astronomy
Fas et Nefas- Song about Right and Wrong from the 13th century Carmina Burana
In Taberna- drinking song from Carmina Burana
Recommended Viewing and Recordings
Into Great Silence- film about a year in the life of Chartreuse monastery, France
Vision- German film about the life of Hildegard of Bingen
LLibre Vermell
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Below are two extremes of the Medieval era- the sublime Cantiga No.100," Santa Maria,Strella Do Dia from the Cantigas de Santa Maria, performed by Hesperion XX under Jordi Savall, and the raucous Medieval drinking song "In Taberna", performed by the Clemenic Consort
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