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Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.
Music in Medieval England. Music in Medieval England, from the end of Roman rule in the fifth century until the Reformation in the sixteenth century, was a diverse and rich culture, including sacred and secular music and ranging from the popular to the elite. The sources of English secular music are much more limited than for ecclesiastical music.
Pages in category "12th-century songs". The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
By the late 11th century, the poet-composer troubadours of southern France became the first proponents of secular music to use musical notation; [n 2] equivalent movements arose in the mid-12th century, with the Minnesang in Germany, trovadorismo in Galicia and Portugal, and the trouvères in northern France.
Minnesang (German: [ˈmɪnəzaŋ] ⓘ; "love song") was a tradition of lyric- and song-writing in Germany and Austria that flourished in the Middle High German period. This period of medieval German literature began in the 12th century and continued into the 14th. People who wrote and performed Minnesang were known as Minnesänger (German ...
Can vei la lauzeta mover. Can vei la lauzeta mover (PC 70.43) [1] is a song written in the Occitan language by Bernart de Ventadorn, a 12th-century troubadour. It is among both the oldest [2] and best known [3] of the troubadour songs. Both the lyrics and the melody of the song survive, in variants from three different manuscripts.
The Friendly Beasts. "The Friendly Beasts" is a traditional Christmas song about the gifts that a donkey, cow, sheep, camel, and dove give to Jesus at the Nativity. The song seems to have originated in 12th-century France, set to the melody of the Latin song "Orientis Partibus". [1]
12th-century songs (1 C, 3 P) Pages in category "12th century in music" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. V.