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Medieval music encompasses the sacred and secular music of Western Europe during the Middle Ages, [1] from approximately the 6th to 15th centuries. It is the first and longest major era of Western classical music and is followed by the Renaissance music; the two eras comprise what musicologists generally term as early music, preceding the common practice period.
Minnesang (German: [ˈmɪnəzaŋ] ⓘ; "love song") was a tradition of German lyric- and song-writing that flourished in the Middle High German period (12th to 14th centuries). The name derives from minne, the Middle High German word for love, as that was Minnesang's main subject.
The word carol is derived from the Old French word carole, a circle dance accompanied by singers (in turn derived from the Latin choraula). Carols were very popular as dance songs from the 1150s to the 1350s. [23] Carols developed in the fourteenth century as a simple song, with a verse and refrain structure. [24]
The more casual vernacular songs are termed spiritual songs and the more formal ones are called hymns. They were used at high festivals, processions or spiritual games. Also, in the context of the Christmas games, carols using folk tunes or mixed-language reworking of Latin hymns and sequences like " In dulci jubilo " and the Quempas carol were ...
A Crusade song (Occitan: canso de crozada, Catalan: cançó de croada, German: Kreuzlied) is any vernacular lyric poem about the Crusades. Crusade songs were popular in the High Middle Ages : 106 survive in Occitan , forty in Old French , thirty in Middle High German , two in Italian , and one in Old Castilian . [ 1 ]
However, many secular songs were sung in the vernacular language, unlike the sacred songs that followed the Latin language of the Church. These earliest types were known as the chanson de geste (song of deeds) and were popular amongst the traveling jongleurs and minstrels of the time. [2]
Yes, there’s old standby “Auld Lang Syne” — a song written by Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1788 — but there are more contemporary New Year’s Eve songs to play as you pop champagne ...
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe. N.A. Talese. ISBN 978-0-385-49555-4. Sandys, William (1833). Christmas Carols : Ancient and Modern. London: Richard Beckley. p. 110.