September 2010
Beginner
376 pages
12h 7m
English
We recently discussed the goliards of the Early Medieval time period. Just to review: The goliards were scholars who wrote secular Latin poems and chants. We don’t have much left in terms of surviving scores, but we do have their poetry, and this poetry later became the basis of a great deal of music.

If you ever had any reason to doubt this, here’s proof. In the years following the Early Medieval period, called the High Medieval time period, the most important musical ...
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