Music and Instruments
SingingThe most common form of singing was known as plainchant or plainsong, in which monks and priests recited their texts by chanting them in a single key.
InstrumentsKings and noblemen dined to the sound of harps and lutes played by musicians called troubadours. Troubadours were men who travelled from town to town singing and playing music that told romantic stories about knights and heroes, and also sang folk songs.They danced to pipes and drums.
By 1400 most towns had a band of professional musicians who accompanied processions with shawms and trumpets. They used different instruments including pipes, drums, fiddles, harps, and bagpipes. |
Medieval Plainchant
Troubadour
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