Composers
I am the first notable female composer in the Western Art Tradition. My music was written in my own original style. I can see the future.
Hildegard von Bingen
"Art" music that stands apart from Traditional and Popular musics.
Classical Music
What event marks the beginning of the Medieval Period in music?
The Fall of Rome
What Medieval instrument is basically a hollow bone or piece of wood with holes drilled through it?
Pipe
What modern instrument does the sackbut resemble?
Trombone
I fell in love with my patron and died with him on the battlefield. I wrote in strophic form and used instruments.
Raimbaut de Vaquieras
Liturgical music; monophonic; early Medieval period
Gregorian Chant
This is the name for religious communities that preserved the ancient world by writing stuff down.
Monasteries
This is the Medieval precursor to the modern violin.
Rebec
Traveling performers who entertained and spread news to the upper-class folk. They played secular and instrumental music.
Troubadours
I was the first composer of polyphonic church music.
Leonin
Music written in which groups of up to 5 or 6 notes were sung on a single syllable.
Neumatic
This is the name of Geoffrey Chaucer's famous work from 1386
Canterbury Tales
This oboe-like instrument was loud and had a nasal timbre.
Shawm
Sung dance form common in late Medieval France.
Estampie
I am the successor to the first composer of polyphonic music. I made it common to use up to four voices singing separate parts simultaneously.
Perotin
What did Polyphony help bring about?
Regular meters, then the use of a more exact notation system.
Who wrote "Symphony of the Harmony of Celestial Revelations"?
Hildegard von Bingen
This is a large cylindrical drum usually played with a stick.
Tabor
First piece of music ever written.
Epitaph of Seikelos
I wrote more than twenty motets in the Ars Nova style. I was active in the court of the Duke of Normandy.
Guilluame de Machaut
This kind of melismatic organum was sometimes written in more than one language.
Motet
What period of music occurs between 1825 and 1900?
Romantic
This stringed instrument resembles the dulcimer and can be bowed or plucked. It produces quite a loud and abrasive sound.
Psaltery
What is the definition of music?
Music is a kind of heightened poetry and dance created through the manipulation of sound and silence into culturally-derived forms. It is used for aesthetic and utilitarian purposes.