preview

How Did The Song Of Roland Influence Popular Culture

Good Essays

The French epic, the Song of Roland has a very well-known historical culture. This would be the culture of the early Crusades. This includes the art, music, clothes, entertainment and society. Some of this culture is actually seen today. The art of this time consisted of medieval art. This includes the Romanesque and Carolingian art. These two types of art both have a good connection to the book in the connection with the time they both came about. One style was created in the time that the epic was taken place and the second took place in the time that the epic was created. Carolingian art started around 750 AD and went through to 985 AD. The Carolingian Renaissance is viewed as the restoration of scholarship, with the figure of Charlemagne as its encourager. Although it is not as popular as the Italian Renaissance, it was mostly limited to the high nobility and the clergy. Carolingian art consisted of illuminated manuscripts, sculptures, metalwork’s and many more. Its greatest influence came from the Roman, Mediterranean; Germanic and Celtic and Byzantine styles as well as Charlemagne’s power. Architecture was also a part of the Carolingian Renaissance. Cathedrals and …show more content…

During the ninth century the original chant which was called Organum was created. This melody was thought up with the idea of singing two melodic lines in chorus. Over the centuries leading up to the twelfth century is when melodies were added to it and it became Ars Antiqua.
Goliard songs are Latin songs of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. These songs are about things such as political and religious satire, love, drinking, and riotous life. The goliardic songs are cast in a more direct musical form, and are put in a regular more syllabic style, and have a more repetitive arrangement than the trouvéres

Get Access