Religious soundscapes: liturgy and music
Susan Boynton
Music played a crucial role in the world of medieval Christianity. In High and Late Middle Ages, musicians continued to cultivate traditional genres chant also created new kinds music for performance both inside outside liturgy. This chapter shows place these musical trends religious culture. The revision composition liturgical unabated throughout period 1100-1500, creating vast legacy late-medieval that remains largely unexplored by scholars. Many sung Latin rhythmic poems from eleventh, twelfth thirteenth centuries reflect doctrinal concerns time such as Marian incarnational theology; settings aptly convey ideas texts. Some songs have secular texts offer glimpse contemporary polemics can be tied university milieu. A particularly vivid example interaction between sacred, secular, vernacular is early-fourteenth-century manuscript Roman de Fauvel with interpolations.
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