Middle Ages like Medieval Music

There are music in the Middle Ages like Medieval Music, Gregorian chants for instance. During that time music were not used to be written down but just for entertainment. People usually earned money from singing and playing the musical instruments. They went to big houses and often sang long songs that told story or myth. Not only did the performance helped the people who went around the countryside earned money from entertaining, it was also a vocal music like Gregorian chants that were allowed in the church. During the Middle Ages, music texture was monophonic, which means a single melodic line. Sacred vocal music like Gregorian chants were written as Latin text and sung unaccompanied. It was the only type of music allowed in churches, so composers kept the melodies pure and simple. Afterward, church choirs added one or more melodic lines to the Gregorian chants. This created polyphonic texture, which means it has two or more melodic lines. No modern Western system of music writing had yet been invented. As for the music instruments, there were two types of them. One for being played indoor and another for outdoor. The difference was that the outdoor type of instruments were louder and were used for dancing like the bagpipes. On the other hand, people tended to use recorder or harp to play indoor, they are not as loud and small. There were also musical idiom of Gregorian chant, giving as a distinctive musical flavor. Skips of a third are common, and larger skips far more common than in other plainchant repertories. Gregorian melodies are more likely to traverse a seventh than a full octave, so that melodies rarely travel from D up to the D an octave higher, but often travel from D to the C a seventh higher, using such patterns as D-F-G-A-C. Most of Medieval Music dates from around 1150 and 1250. It was the time that great cathedrals were built in Gothic architecture. “Ars Antique” was the music of that time, it used a rhythms system called “rhythmic modes”.