PROJECT III

1) What period does the Middle Ages cover?
The Middle Ages, the medieval period of European history between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the Renaissance, are sometimes referred to as the "Dark Ages."


2) What general characteristics does it have (according to the teacher’s comments)?
Feudalism, we can distinguished: the nobility, the clergy and the peasants.
Culture:many writings, mystical stories,different religions...
The renacisme movements.
Theocentrism: political system governed by the Church and the clergy.



3) What is the main difference between “troubadours” and “minstrels”?

TROUBADOURS

One of a class of medieval lyric poets who flourished principally in southern France from the 11th to 13th centuries, and wrote songs and poems of a complex metrical form in langue d'oc, chiefly on themes of courtly love.

MINSTRELS
A medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.

4) Pay attention to these two monuments (a Romanic church and a Gothic cathedral). What do their different heights have in common with the music evolution of those centuries?
The cathedral Romanic the highest is heard more because there is echo 

5) What do you feel looking at these pictures (taken from the 19th century but directly linked to the Middle Ages)? In your own opinion, what kind of music could accompany these images?

I would put a song playes by violins and piano

                                                    

It transmits me peace, relegation and harmony.

I would put music with noises about nature: birds, waterfalls, rivers…

It transmit Love

I would put music with a piano or a harp

6) Why does Heavy Metal music love this aesthetic? 

For me the swords, warlike, dragons... They mean strength and bravery and for me rock is very powerful.

Here you have the original score and the adapted one (modern music language) that you are playing in class (and at home I would like to believe). Have a look at their main differences. 

The current score has five lines on the staff and before it was only four. Now the notes are round and before they were squared.