Discovering the Music of the Middle Ages

Series: Discovering Music Series

Duration: 19

Genre: Dance | Educational | Ethnographic | Historical | Music

Year Published: 1968

Creator: Bernard Wilets

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses settings, costumes, dance, and pageantry to show the importance of religious and secular music in the Middle Ages. Presents the origins of harmony, the dominance of the church in medieval life, social stratification, and medieval musical instruments. Covers the Gregorian chant, styles of composition, the Mass, and wandering minstrels., Uses settings, costumes, dance, and pageantry to show the importance of religious and secular music in the Middle Ages. Presents the origins of harmony, the dominance of the church in medieval life, social stratification, and medieval musical instruments. Covers the Gregorian chant, styles of composition, the Mass, and wandering minstrels.

Complete Record: Uses settings, costumes, dance, and pageantry to show the importance of religious and secular music in the Middle Ages. Presents the origins of harmony, the dominance of the church in medieval life, social stratification, and medieval musical instruments. Covers the Gregorian chant, styles of composition, the Mass, and wandering minstrels., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.