The troubadours, trouveres, and jongleurs (who flourished in France, Italy, and Spain from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries inclusive), and their English contemporaries, the minstrels or wayfarers, as well as the minnesingers in Germany during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, accompanied their chants and lyric improvisations on instruments. It may be said that instrumental music developed simultaneously with the secular music itself. In secular music, however, instruments played an important role at an early date. It gave the pitch to the singers and added brilliancy and sonority. The organ, in its primitive and rude form, was the first, and for a long time the sole, instrument used to accompany the chant. Includes the Catholic Encyclopedia, Church Fathers, Summa, Bible and more all for only $19.99.įor almost a thousand years Gregorian chant, without any instrumental or harmonic addition, was the only music used in connection with the liturgy. Please help support the mission of New Advent and get the full contents of this website as an instant download.
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