"Carbon has seized her and holds her in [his] mouth."This style of music came during a time called trecento. It was a time that spontaneoiusly appeared in Italy in the 14th century. Much polyphonic, secular music suddenly appears during this time. this may have been a result of oral tradition and what came before this may have been destroyed. I can't really figure out why I didn't particularly enjoy this style of music. What I do know is that when I listened to this atyle, for some reason, I couldn't concentrate on the music itself. It didn't capture my attention the way that the majority of the other styles of music we studied did. 4.In 8th century BC, poets called sections of their poems "cantos" and they had in their text references to music. For example, Homer's Odyssey.Opera, initially a play set to music, attempted to re-create Greek and Roman dramas. In Medievel France, there was secular music and medievel monophony. The performers were traveling minstrels and jongleurs and were at the bottom eschalon of society. they sang the known song repetoire of the day. They were very popular in France. Four specific types of songs from the Troubador and Trouvere tradition were: Chanson, alba, dansa, and chanson de geote. The chanson were monophonic songs and they are songs about courtly love, a type of writing where women are put on a pedestal as an unattainable being. The alba were morning, or dawn, songs where, in the lyrics, lover's must leave each other the morning after they have been together so that no one can find them out. The dansa is a dance song which is highly rhythmic and mentions spring or spring festival. Finally, the chanson de geote, from specifically the trouveres only, were songs of heroic deeds or exploits. They were about chivalry.The German Palestinalied songs were associated with the Crusades and were about traveling to Palestine to reclaim the Holy Lands.The Italian monophony was associated with religion, but in I...
