Humanities Study Guide

Humanities Study Guide

inspired others to write music in a new, more formalized manner. Guido of Arezzo developed a six- note scale that eventually inspired the eight-note scale currently used to write music. This musical scale associated each tone with the first syllable ( ut, re, mi, fa, la) of a hymn . He also invented the staff, which allowed each line and space to represent a tone. Drama Christianity filled the Middle Ages, and not many other themes were accepted for fear of persecution. The first early plays of this time were biblical scenes, and were usually reenacted in churches. Hildegard of Bingen wrote a morality play set to music, which resembled what we currently know as opera. Longer, more detailed versions of biblical reenactments, such as The Play of Herod, continued to thrive. Stock characters, or characters that appeared in many plays during that time, and costumes became routine in these plays. Eventually, plays started to hold more importance and value, and they began to move into the secular world. Philosophy Philosophers of the early Middle Ages were some of the first to grapple with the importance of Christianity. These men asked themselves hard questions through the lens of their religion, centering around Christian ideals and the human soul in relation to God. They began posing new questions that turned commentary into debate. Monasteries, once the only source of education for young boys, were now challenged by Cathedral schools. Some of the more potent philosophies of the time were minimalism , a school of thought that denied the existence of universal truths, and realism , which helped explain the world and religious truth.

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