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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.
However, when used by some historians today, the term "Dark Ages" is meant to describe the economic, political and cultural problems of the era. [42] [43] For others, the term Dark Ages is intended to be neutral, expressing the idea that the events of the period seem 'dark' to us because of the paucity of the historical record. [10]
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
In the early Middle Ages, ecclesiastical music was dominated by monophonic plainchant. [1] The separate development of British Christianity from the direct influence of Rome until the eighth century, with its flourishing monastic culture, led to the development of a distinct form of liturgical Celtic chant. [9]
The origins of the field can be traced back to Charles Darwin who wrote in The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex: . When we treat of sexual selection we shall see that primeval man, or rather some early progenitor of man, probably first used his voice in producing true musical cadences, that is in singing, as do some of the gibbon-apes at the present day; and we may conclude ...
Chanting – singing is widely popular, with many of its performers also using a variety of musical instruments. [42] They used the materials at hand to make their instruments for thousands of years before Europeans immigrated to the new world . [ 43 ]
For hundreds of a millions of years, the universe existed in the dark ages—an epoch when only primordial gasses existed. Then, a period of reionization, cleared away this foggy existence an ...
Ancient Roman music and singing originated from Etruscan music, [5] [6] [7] and then Ancient Greek music. [8] During its early history, it was mostly used for military purposes. [9] According to Cicero, Roman musical tradition was adapted during the reign of Numa Pompilius.