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harmony and hamony in the middle ages and renaissance
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notation
how long a note is held or played. the ancient Greeks had developed a highly complex and sophisticated system of notation which could record both vocal and instrumental music as well as indicating rhythm, but it was lost, as indicated by the lack of any musical notation in manuscripts until the ninth century
harmony and hamony in the middle ages and renaissance
rhythm
melody
melody is one note at a time
harmony- to or more notes together. harmony in the middle ages and recaissance is During the Middle Ages harmony evolved into polyphony see Musical Texture. During the Renaissance, the shell harmony of the Middle Ages was succeeded by true harmony.
a particular type of pattern formed by rhythm. In the middle ages and rennaissance rythm was used because Most Renaissance music is in simple duple or triple meter, sometimes with changes of meter marking the beginnings of new sections. The rhythms of the individual voice parts are often quite independent of the meter and of each other. Much of the rhythmic interest comes from the interplay between the irregular accents in the individual voices and the subtle regularity of the underlying meter.
form
The way music is aranged. Science also played a part in the creation of music. Musicians learned how the pitch changes by lengthening or shortening the size of the string on stringed instruments. Once again, symmetry became a part of the music they created. Musicians studied the Greek drama and tried to create music that would go with the words of their stories. This was the beginning of opera, where music and theater are combined.