H. PROJECT III
a) What period does the Middle Ages cover?
The Middle Ages cover from the 5th Century to the 15th Century.
b) What general characteristics does it have (according to the teacher’s comments)?
People usually sang in the streets like minstrels or they sang gregorian chants in cathedrals or churches. It was a society divided into different groups: people with privileges and people that haven't got them.
c)What is the main difference between “troubadours” and “minstrels”?
Trobadours were medieval musicians and poets that composed their works and perform them and minstrels were the people that performed them.
d) Pay attention to these two monuments (a Romanic church and a Gothic cathedral). What do their different heights have in common with the music evolution of those centuries?
In Romanic churches the monks sang high-pitched songs (gregorian chants) and in Gothic cathedrals they sang low-pitched songs.
e)What do you feel looking at these pictures (taken from the 19th century but directly linked to the Middle Ages)? In your own opinion, what kind of music could accompany these images?
I feel nervous and lonesomeness. I think slow songs or rock songs will accompanied these images.
f) Why does Heavy Metal music love this aesthetic?
Heavy Metal love this aesthetic because their pitch and his speed are relationed with wars.