Middle Ages Music

Secular music is ______ _________ music.

Sacred music is ____________ music

People called ____________ traveled the country, singing their secular love songs.

Middle Ages is also called ________________

The Middle ages was a time of warfare, religious devotion, and royal pageantry. (There are more than 1 answer.)

• Warfare

• Riches

• Education

• Religious Devotion

• Royal Pageantry

The Catholic Church, under the leadership of the ______ __ ______ was important part of life during this time.

Sacred music was mostly _________ music until 1100.

Most notated music was sacred in the Middle ages.

Why?

• The church had control over what songs to sing

• People couldn't read or write

• The church had control over learning

• The royals decided what should be notated

•The earliest form of sacred music was called _____________.

The most well-known form of plainsong is called ____________, in honor of Pope Gregory the First.