Medieval Music
Excerpts from the Original Electronic Text at the web site of New Advent.
Context and Genres
Sacred Music
Divine Offices
The Mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sanctus
Benedictus
Agnus Dei
Motets
Secular Music
Troubadours, Trouveres, and Minnesingers
Dances
Examples
1. Anonymous (11th cent.), Kyrie Eleison (Voices of Ascension, From Chant to Renaissance #8)
2. Anonymous (13th cent.), Kyrie Eleison (Anonymous Four, An English Ladymass #5)
3. Peter Abelard (12th cent.), O quanto qualia (Theatre of Voices, Monastic Song #1)
4. Hildegard von Bingen (11th cent.) Nunc aperuit nobis (Sequentia, Canticles of Ecstasy, #2)
5. Hildegard von Bingen (11th cent.) Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit (Sequentia, Canticles of Ecstasy, #3)
6. Arnaut Daniel (12th cent.), Lo ferm voler qu'el cor m'intra (Sequentia, Dante and the Troubadours #2)
7. Anonymous (13th cent.), Dance -- Penser ne doit vilenie (Sonus Chanterai, Music of Medieval France #1)
Links
Medieval Music (The Internet Public Library)
Gregorian Chant
(Catholic Encyclopedia)
Music of the Mass (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Liturgy of the Mass (Catholic Encyclopedia)
Latin Mass in translation ( Rick Kephart)
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