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Medieval music generally refers the music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. [1] The first and longest major era of Western classical music , medieval music includes composers of a variety of styles, often centered around a particular nationality or composition school .
Medieval writers — people writing during the Middle Ages, generally from the 6th century to the 15th century. Subcategories This category has the following 59 subcategories, out of 59 total.
Medieval literature is a broad subject, encompassing essentially all written works available in Europe and beyond during the Middle Ages (that is, the one thousand years from the fall of the Western Roman Empire ca. AD 500 to the beginning of the Renaissance in the 14th, 15th or 16th century, depending on country). The literature of this time ...
Juan Ruiz (c. 1283 – c. 1350), known as the Archpriest of Hita (Arcipreste de Hita), was a medieval Castilian poet. He is best known for his ribald , earthy poem , El Libro de buen amor ( The Book of Good Love ).
Adam de la Halle. Adam de la Halle (1240–1287), also known as Adam the Hunchback, was a French trouvère, poet and musician. [181] The play of Robin and Marion (1937). [182] A translation of Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion, a mediaeval folk comedy-opera in one act, written for the court of Robert I, Count of Artois, in the thirteenth century ...
Adam de la Halle (1245–50 – 1285–8/after 1306) was a French poet-composer trouvère. [1] Among the few medieval composers to write both monophonic and polyphonic music, in this respect he has been considered both a conservative and progressive composer, resulting in a complex legacy: he cultivated admired representatives of older trouvère genres, but also experimented with newer ...
One of the features of the Renaissance which marked the end of the medieval period is the rise in the use of the vernacular or the language of the common people for literature. The compositions in these local languages were often about the legends and history of the areas in which they were written which gave the people some form of national ...
The bulk of literature in Classical Sanskrit dates to the Early Medieval period, but in most cases cannot be dated to a specific century. The vocalized Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible developed during the 7th to 10th centuries. The Old English Beowulf is dated to anywhere between the 8th and early 11th centuries.