MEDIEVAL MUSIC: TEACHERS’ GUIDE
1. INTRODUCTION
ACTIVITY 1
Suggested pieces of music:
Song 1 (Any kind of Gregorian Chant):
Silos Monastery Monks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vArNf76XxYo
Song 2 (Any kind of pop music)
Green Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUTGr5t3MoY
SONG 1: No instruments; Male choir; Monastery; Quiet; Slow, unmarked beat; To relax,
for meditation, to sleep.
SONG2: Electric guitar, drums, electric bass; Male voices; Disco, pub; party, concert;
Loud; Fast, marked beat; To dance.
2. MEDIEVAL MUSIC
ACTIVITY 1
Suggested pieces of music:
Fragment 1: Guillame de Machaut “Messe de Notre Dame”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHRAYbgdxew
Fragment 2: Jongleurs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdJDDte6H-s
Fragment 3: Gregorian Chant
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfwuZaf6WXw
Fragment 4: Troubaritz “Galician-Portuguese Cantiga”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_1EDSpz-fE
RELIGIOUS MUSIC: Fragment 1; Fragment 3
SECULAR MUSIC: Fragment 2; Fragment 4
Material AICLE. 2º de ESO:
Medieval Music (Solucionario)
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3. MEDIEVAL RELIGIOUS MUSIC
ACTIVITY 2
ANSWERS: Fast; instruments; marked-rhythm; women; loud; dance.
ACTIVITY 7
ACTIVITY 10
Gregorian chant; Gregory I; forbidden; neumes; organum; old art; Leonine; Perotin; ars
nova; Machaut.
VIDEO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtQZvoaMEy8
ACTIVITY 1
ANSWER: There are instruments in all of the images
ACTIVITY 3
TEXT:
During the Middle Ages, music was not only used for religious purposes, it was also used
for entertainment.. Non-religious music, is also known as secular music.
Secular music was performed by two kinds of musicians: troubadours and jongleurs.
Troubadours were noblemen who composed and sang their own songs, usually about
love. They accompanied the song playing an instrument. The lyrics were in their own
language. They sang for wealthy people from court to court, and they were very wellconsidered. They received different names depending on their countries, but troubadour
is used as the generic (Troubadours are the most famous and were from the south of
France; in the north of France there were Trovères; in Germany, there were Minnesingers;
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Material AICLE. 2º de ESO:
Medieval Music (Solucionario)
There were also female composers known as Trobairitz). Some famous troubadours were
William IX Duke of Aquitaine, the English king Richard the Lionheart, and the Spanish
king Alfonso X the Wise.
Jongleurs were musicians from a lower social class. They went from village to village,
or castle to castle, playing, singing and performing tricks, earning some money for
entertaining the nobility. They did not compose the songs they sang, nor write the lyrics.
ACTIVITY 5
ANSWER: Joan Manuel Serrat
ANSWER: They both compose and sing their own songs.
ACTIVITY 6
ANSWER: singer-songwriters
5. REVIEW ACTIVITY
ACROSS:
5. secular
6. organum
7. Latin
8. Monk
9. Trovairitz
11. Jongleur
DOWN:
1. neume
2. troubadour
3. monastery
4. monophony
10. polyphony
12. Lèonin
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