{"id":50,"date":"2012-01-30T18:37:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T23:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/?p=50"},"modified":"2012-02-26T16:08:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-26T21:08:51","slug":"vocal-music-in-the-medieval-and-renaissance-periods-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/vocal-music-in-the-medieval-and-renaissance-periods-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocal Music in the Medieval and Renaissance Periods [GUIDE]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Star icon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Star.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"23\" height=\"22\" \/>\u00a0Vocal music in the Medieval and Renaissance periods is\u00a0some of the most interesting and beautiful music of all time. Use this guide as a jumping-off point to explore some of the more important genres and techniques in the Medieval era through the Renaissance (ending around 1600).<\/p>\n<h3>Topics:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Medieval and Renaissance Music: Why is it Important?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/medieval-and-renaissance-music-why-is-it-important\/\">Medieval and Renaissance Music: Why is it Important?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/chant\">Chant<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; the first major body of European music that was notated (written down).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/organum\">Organum<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; the earliest genre of polyphony, which developed out of chant.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/polyphony\">Polyphony<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; a style of music that was especially popular and sophisticated during the height of the Renaissance (16th century).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Madrigal and Word Painting\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/madrigal\/\">Madrigals and Word Painting<\/a>\u00a0&#8212; a sub-category of polyphony: secular music that illustrates words through melody and texture.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Exercises:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/beyondthenotes.org\/exercises\/exercises\/listening-to-medieval-and-renaissance-music.html\"><strong>Listening to Medieval and Renaissance Vocal Music<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/a>Develop and test your ability to recognize the genres and techniques discussed in this guide. I recommend using this exercise as a tool to learn\u00a0what\u00a0to listen for, and <em>how<\/em> to listen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>&#8230;video coming soon!<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Vocal music in the Medieval and Renaissance periods is\u00a0some of the most interesting and beautiful music of all time. Use this guide as a jumping-off point to explore some of the more important genres and techniques in the Medieval era through the Renaissance (ending around 1600). Topics: Medieval and Renaissance Music: Why is it Important? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,27,26,28,21],"tags":[46,35,34],"class_list":["post-50","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guides","category-medieval","category-music","category-renaissance","category-videos","tag-exercises","tag-medieval-music","tag-renaissance-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondthenotes.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}