Middle Ages
Which centuries make up the middle ages in our notes?
5th to 15th centuries.
Which centuries make up the Renaissance?
15th and 16th centuries.
Who is associated with naming the musical notes?
Guido d’Arezzo.
What is another word for non-religious music?
Profane music.
Music sung without instruments is called what?
A cappella.
What language was Gregorian chant sung in?
Latin.
What does Renaissance mean?
To be born again.
Which pope had Gregorian chant compiled?
Pope Gregory I.
What is a Renaissance secular vocal form with 4 or 5 voices?
Madrigal.
What do we call music with one melody?
Monophony.
How many melodies are heard in monophonic music?
One.
Which instrument predominated in Renaissance music?
The voice.
Which medieval composer was an abbess?
Hildegard von Bingen.
What religious Renaissance form is for voices without instruments?
Motet.
Which style has voices moving together in the same rhythm?
Homophony.
What is the name of the four-line musical staff?
Tetragram.
What develops further in Ars Nova besides pitch?
Rhythm.
Name the king associated with the Canticles of St. Mary.
Alfonso X the Wise.
Which Renaissance religious form emerged with Luther’s reform?
Chorale (coral in the notes).
Which style uses different rhythms in simultaneous voices?
Counterpoint.
What were early written musical notes called?
Neumes.
What are the two types of polyphony named in the notes?
Homophony and counterpoint.
Name either Renaissance composer in the notes.
G. P. Palestrina or T. L. de Victoria.
Name two non-religious Renaissance forms other than madrigal.
Any two: romance, salad, carol, lied/chanson.
Who sang stories to ordinary people: minstrels or troubadours?
Minstrels.