he control over their fate. Therefore, during this time, music was mainly secular and was written for the church.Chant was the mainstay of music in the Catholic churches. polyphony also developed in this time, at the turning point into the Rennaisance. In 100 AD pitch notation was developed. The first use of rhythm was about 1170-1200. The School of Notre Dame became a very important focal point in church music. It created the addition of 3rd and 4th voice parts to the church music. There was also the first use of rhythm in church music. This use of rhythm started to impact secular music. In the 1200's a preist wrote a scheme for writing rhythm called Staff notation. The early Rennaisance music was more harmonic and the bass register was introduced. Isorhythm, taking the chant and putting it into a rhythmic pattern, was also used.In 1945, the beginning of the Rennaisance brought about more light-hearted music for entertainment. During this period, known as the rebirth, people were saying it was " the best of times." 2.My least favorite style of music studied in class was the caccia, a form of 14th century Italian poetry and music. The caccia is a hunt or chase song. The text includes hunting or pastoral imagery. The musical part of the caccia is strictly canon (imitative) where one voice "chases" the other. The imitation is at the exact same pitch as level. There are two voices singing along with an instrumental line. The singers, sing the hunting calls about the hunt throughout much of the songThere is the singing that sounds much like the hunting horn. In hunting, this was done by the French horn and was used as a signal. It had a curled shape so it could easily be carried in the hunt. Tosto che l'alba by Ghirardello da Firenze is an example of a caccia. In this song, you can see the use of the singing of hunting calls. You can also see the use of pastoral or hunting images in the lines, such as, "Carbona la prese in bocha la tene" or...
