Humanities notes:
1. Middle ages:
Medieval, dark time, music used to assist with long hours of prayer.
Plainchant: unadorned and unaccompanied, consisting of a single unaccompanied melody line, a musical texture called “monophony” (“one sound”)
Monophonic texture: a texture consisting of a single, unaccompanied melody line
Ave maris stella: Hail, Star of the Ocean
Revering to the virgin mary:
Hail, star of the ocean, gentle mother of God, and also always virgin, joyous portal of the…
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