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    Secular music flourished in France and Germany during the Medieval period. Secular songs employed more topics than plainsong and used native languages, featuring one melodic line. Minstrels and other performers like troubadours and trouveres spread secular music, composing songs on themes of love, politics, and daily life to entertain nobility. Genres included conductus, chansons, and works by famous composers like Adam de la Halle.

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    Secular music flourished in France and Germany during the Medieval period. Secular songs employed more topics than plainsong and used native languages, featuring one melodic line. Minstrels and other performers like troubadours and trouveres spread secular music, composing songs on themes of love, politics, and daily life to entertain nobility. Genres included conductus, chansons, and works by famous composers like Adam de la Halle.

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    Secular music flourished in France and Germany during the Medieval period. Secular songs employed more topics than plainsong and used native languages, featuring one melodic line. Minstrels and other performers like troubadours and trouveres spread secular music, composing songs on themes of love, politics, and daily life to entertain nobility. Genres included conductus, chansons, and works by famous composers like Adam de la Halle.

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    Secular Music 0f the

    Medieval Period

    Secular

    Denoting attitudes, activities,
    or other things that have no
    religious or spiritual basis.

    Secular music flourished in
    France and Germany during
    this era.
    Characteristics of
    Secular
     Music
    Secular songs are written in
    monophonic texture with only
    one melodic line notations just
    like chants.
    Secular songs employ more
    topics or themes than plainsong.
    Native languages are applied in
    creating secularof the Gregorian
    chants.
    Generally, secular songs are
    syllabic.
    Minstrels – performers of secular
    songs during the Middle Ages.
    A minstrel was  a medieval European
    entertainer. Originally describing any
    type of entertainer such as a musician,
    juggler, acrobat, singer or fool
    The term later, from the sixteenth
    century, came to mean a specialist
    entertainer who sang songs and
    played musical instruments.

    Jongleurs – France
    Gaukler – Germany
    Gleemen - England
    Secular Songs in France

    Troubadours and Trouveres –
    poet-musicians
    Educated and cultured men
    from the nobility class residing in
    the feudal courts
    Planh – a lament on the death of a
    distinguished person.
    Chanson de toile – a spinning song

    Pastroulle – a song in dialogue form
    between a knight and shepherdness.
    Chanson de geste – a narrative
    poetry with extraordinary characters
    Canso – a poem of love
    Tenso – a poem in form of dialogue
    Sirventes and Enueg – poems that
    use sarcasm in exposing follies

    Aube – the song of a friend
    watching over lovers
    Adam De la Halle

    Adam the Hunchback
    Family name
    Born in France in 1237
    Adam of Arras – suggest that he
    came from Arras France
    Cisterian abbey of Vaucelles –
    studied theology, grammar and
    music
    He would have been a priest,

    but in the end he married Marie
    Robert II, Count of Artois and
    then with Charles of Anjou,
    King of Naples.
    Jeu de Robin et Marion
    Le Jeu de la Feuillee


     Adam Puchmann, Konrad Nachtigall and Hans
    Sachs
    Latin Secular Songs

     Conductus – wandering students of the Medival
    period
     Drinking, love, political, satire and vulgar topics.
     The Song of the Sibyl.


     They are of low social order along with prostitutes
    and slaves, who have no civil rights.
     Usually sing songs composed by others.
     They entertain feudal courts with their acrobatic
    shows, jugglery, and trained animals.
    Troubadours

     Troubadour is an itinerant composer and performer
    of songs in medieval Europe; a jongleur or travelling
    minstrel.
    Trouveres

     Trouvere is a medieval lyric poet using the northern
    (precursor dialects of modern French)
    Troubadours

     Marcabru of Gascony
     Guiraut Riquier
     Guiraut de Bornelh
     Bernart de Ventadorn
     Bertran de Born
    Trouveres

     Conon de Bethune
     King Thibaut IV of Navarre
     Blondel de Nesle
     Adam de la Halle
    Secular Songs in
    Germany

     Minnesingers – Singers of love songs
     Minnelied – literature of German poetry and song
     Wislav von Rugen, Heinrich von Meissen,
    Walthervon der Vogelweide, Heinrich von
    Morungen, And Neidhart von Reuental
     Meistersingers – Successors to the Minnesingers
     Meistergesang

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