The Cathedral of Medieval Music

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Welcome to the Cathedral—the greatest hub for true medieval music on last.fm


taste the difference :
glad you made it to the Cathedral, your hideway of trust. in order to learn and
understand what the essence of is, the Cathedral doesn't collect
composers by the years they lived, regardless of style, but by the music they
composed. that's why some so-called "medieval" composers are omitted and
others who didn't happen to live in the "right century" are listed here because they
still wrote music in the medieval style. makes sense ? the Cathedral is all about
the music, not about the common pigeonholes.

what defines ?
of course, medieval music is music written in the Middle Ages. but this alone doesn't
explain anything, because we are talking about a time span of 1000 years ! or does
it help you to label the music of our time and of the last four centuries, from baroque
to opera to sonata to 12-tone music to jazz to rock to hip-hop to ambient, etc. with
'music of the modern ages' ?

so let's get specific.

I. Romanesque era

the predominant musical genre of the Early Middle Ages (500-1000), in art theory
called the Pre-Romanesque era, is sacred music, best represented by the monophonic
(today mostly confused with gregorian chant which is a subgenre).
around 900 BC, parallel voices were added, called which gave rise to
harmony and polyphony. another genre was the , a kind of
"religious medieval musical". all these genres still were predominant during the
subsequent Romanesque era (1000-1150), first part of the High Middle Ages.

much of the music from these periods is anonymous. some important composers
that are still known are :

Xosroviduxt, 4th or 8th century, armenian female composer
Kassia, 9th century, byzantine female composer
St. Godric
Hucbald
Hildegard of Bingen, 12th century, the famous german abbess

II. Gothic era

with the upcoming rhythmic notation of music, the essential medieval style known
today is , successor of the during the Gothic era
(1150-1350) of the High and Late Middle Ages. the predominant genre is the .
important composers of this period :

Léonin
Pérotin
Adam de la Halle
W. de Wycombe
Pierre de la Croix

another completely different and secular tradition of making music were the
(trouvères, trobairitzes, minnesingers), the first known "singer
songwriters" of lyric poetry with a rich regional diversity of styles. important names
with surviving music are :

Walther von der Vogelweide
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Raimon de Miraval
Bernart de Ventadorn
Giraut de Bornelh

III. Late Middle Ages / Early Renaissance

music of the Late Middle Ages (1300-1500) is to some extent written in the
medieval styles noted above, but to a large extent already evolved to something
new which later was called 'renaissance music'. the early (or proto-)renaissance
started in Italy beginning 1300, still Gothic, in italian called .
the trecento heavily relied on a new theory of mensural notation which overcame
the traditional medieval style of ars antiqua and was in consequence called .
this innovative technique expanded the complex rhythmic resources of a composer,
produced the first complete masses and—besides evolving the motet—established
a new genre that was to become a driving force in renaissance music: the .
in fact, the new merge of secular and sacred music and the upcoming 'isorhythm' (a
kind of early renaissance "groove") was the beginning of a break and offended the
medieval ear.
the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th century marked the transition from the Middle
Ages to the Modern Age which began with the Baroque era. but as long as
renaissance music is not simply considered a substyle of medieval music, the ars
nova is a post- medieval / early renaissance phenomenon in music. important
composers of this transitional period (intentionally not connected to this Cathedral) :

Philippe de Vitry
Guillaume de Machaut
Francesco Landini
Jacopo da Bologna
Matteo da Perugia


please note : by default, music after 1400 is called "renaissance" music and
composers are automatically put into this pigeonhole regardless of their musical
style. composers before 1400 are automatically put into the "medieval" pigeonhole
even if they wrote post-ars-nova avant-garde music () that still today
sounds modernistic. some people decided that the year 1400 made all the
difference ... not the Cathedral : we use our ears, not our schoolbooks.


connected groups➤ Gothic Music of Ars Antiqua and Notre Dame
➤ Gothic Music of the Troubadours
➤ Gothic Music of Ars Nova and Trecento


groups we recommend➤ Music of the Middle Ages


you didn't know what medieval music is. but you will.

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  • Tyetth

    I'm far from being an expert, but from what I've heard so far, I find Compostela ad Vesperas Sancti Iacobi (Codex Calixtinus) performed by Ensemble Organum a truly enchanting work. Liturgical chants <3

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    This group is an automatic intrigue. I just HAD to join

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    Love me some Guillaume de Machaut and Hildegard von Bingen.

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    Hello Sir.. How are you?

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  • Lysander

    Hmm, a lot to learn here.

    August 2010

  • SirAlecHendrix

    good question, i will try to make a reference list and/or links to streams, downloads or commercial albums.

    Februar 2010

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    Where do I can to find this music?

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