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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.
From the early 19th century there was a renewed attention for Bach and his music: his Latin church music, including BWV Anh. 167 (published as a composition by Bach in 1805), the Magnificat (published in 1811), BWV 234 (published in 1818) and the Mass in B minor (heralded as "the greatest musical art work of all times and nations" in 1818 ...
It also prohibited female singers and restricted contralto and soprano parts to boys (thus excluding castratos for good), discouraged music with secular influences, and barred the use of piano, percussion, and all other instruments aside from the organ, unless given special permission from a bishop or comparable prelate to use wind instruments.
He also composed secular music such as oratorios and incidental music, concertos and symphonies. [2] He composed the Missa brevis in C, a setting of the Latin order of Mass, for SATB soloists and choir, 2 trumpets, timpani, 2 violins, organ and continuo. The duration is given as 25 minutes.
Missodia Sionia ("Sionian Chant of the Mass") is a collection of sacred music by Michael Praetorius, published in Wolfenbüttel in 1611. It holds music for church services on Latin texts, set for two to eight parts , including a complete mass for eight voices.
It is the single largest primary source of secular polyphonic music of the Trecento – the Italian ars nova – and contains the largest surviving collection of the compositions of Francesco Landini. The illuminated portraits of the musicians are attributed to Lorenzo Monaco and his circle.
Music, usually pipe music, would accompany public prayers. [19] Cymbals and drums were used in rituals of the cult of Cybele and rattles were important to the cult of Isis . [ 20 ] Female musicians, dancers, and singers would perform at a festival for the goddess Isis who had a temple in Rome. [ 21 ]
The Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (One Hundred Songs of Harmonic Music, [1] also known simply as the Odhecaton) is an anthology of polyphonic secular songs published by Ottaviano Petrucci in 1501 in Venice. It is the first book of polyphonic music ever to be printed using movable type.