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476
THE BEGINNING OF THE MIDDLE AGES
The Middle Ages begin with the fall of the Western Roman Empire. -
476
THE ORIGIN OF THE FEUDALISM
The origin of feudalism was located at the time when the Carolingian Empire disintegrated in the ninth century.
Monarchs began to have serious difficulty defending their possessions. -
Period: 476 to 1450
PROFANE MUSIC
It was played by two types of characters: the troubadours and the minstrels, who received different names according to the territory in which they were located. -
501
EMERGENCE OF MONASTERIES
As the Empire fell apart, a few men decided to move away from the violence of the Middle Ages and gather in secluded places.
However, the monks of the Middle Ages, taking the example of St. Benedict, had a very important function to sustain and preserve the cultural remains of the defunct Roman Empire. -
701
GREGORIAN CHANT
It was a strictly vocal type of music with one voice, or, at most, with an accompaniment based on parallel fifths. -
Period: 1048 to 1453
BYZANTINE WAR
A series of wars between the Turkic peoples and the Byzantine Empire that were fought over four centuries. -
1400
RENAISSANCE MUSIC
It is characterized by a soft sonority that derives from the acceptance of the third as a consonant harmonic interval and the progressive increase in the number of voices -
Period: 1400 to
RENAISSANCE
is a cultural movement that arises in Italy around 1400. It marks the leap from the Medieval period to the Modern Age and brings with it a great cultural transformation -
1410
The Black Death
It was the most devastating bubonic plague pandemic in human history, affecting Eurasia -
Period: 1448 to 1449
The siege of Orléans
Orleans was a very important strategic point to gain control of the Loire lands along with Angers, Tours or Blois. -
1492
THE END OF THE MIDDLE AGES
The end of the Middle Ages ended with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the arrival of Columbus in America. -
1492
BOURGEISIE
A new social class is imposed which will be the one who promotes this ideology. -
THE END OF THE RENAISSANCE MUSIC
