This earliest form of polyphony was create by adding notes either a 5th above or a 4th below an existing chant.
What is parallel organum?
100
This form of motet, characterized by a talea and color, became the most popular form of composition in the Ars Nova.
What is Isorhythmic motet?
100
This blind Italian composer became famous for a cadence that descended a step so that it could leap a third.
Who is Francesco Landini?
100
This style of architecture dominated the building of churches in the thirteenth century, including the beautiful Notre Dame in Paris.
What is Gothic?
100
This unknown source is credited with writing about much of history in the late middle ages, including about the school of Notre Dame.
Who is Anonymous IV?
200
Taken from the French word for "word", this form consisted of a chant used as a tenor in the lowest voices, with additional voices above it with different words.
What is a motet?
200
This mass by Guillaume de Machaut became the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary to be set by a single composer and conceived of as a unit.
What is the Messe de Nostre Dame?
200
This composer, cleric, secretary to kings, and canon of Reims was the first composer to compile his complete works, thus ensuring himself a place in history.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
200
Europe lost nearly a third of her population to this disease which raged from 1347-1350.
What is the Black Death, or bubonic plague?
200
This compilation of polyphony was credited to Leonin with additions by Perotin and contained some of the earliest examples of polyphonic settings.
What is the Magnus liber organi?
300
This is the term for a repeating rhythmic pattern in an isorhythmic motet.
What is talea?
300
This highly complex and intellectual music from the court of Avignon featured pieces notated in fanciful shapes, great rhythmic complexity and blurred harmonies.
What is the Ars Subtilior?
300
The term "Ars Nova" is attributed to this poet, composer, church canon, and administrator, because they are the final words of a treatise on the art.
Who is Philippe de Vitry?
300
This famous allegorical poem captured the spirit of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, and depicted a horse that rose to political power.
What is the Roman de Fauvel?
300
This "type" of music by instruments such as the cornett, trumpets and shawms, was loud and meant to played out of doors or for dancing.
What is "Haut".
400
This term refers to standard "forms" used in secular music of the 14th century.
What is formes fixes?
400
This popular Italian form of secular music uses strict canon to "hunt" the other voice.
What is caccia?
400
This composer and theorist is credited with developing a notation that is named for him, allowing for the first time rhythm in which there were relative durations.
Who is Franco da Cologna?
400
Dante, Boccacio and Chaucer were all authors who contributed to increased literacy by writing in this way.
What is the vernacular?
400
This hiccuping technique alternated voices resting and singing.
What is hocket technique?
500
This term for "firm song" became the basis or tenor for most music of the late middle ages and early renaissance.
What is cantus firmus?
500
This form of chromatic alteration earned it's name because the pitches were not in the gamut, and therefore false.
What is Musica ficta?
500
This pair of composers is credited with the Notre Dame school - a form of polyphony that is a more ornate and developed form of organum.
Who are Leoninus and Perotinus?
500
In 1378, Philip IV of France created this divide in the Catholic church by installing his own pope in Avignon.
What is the Great Schism?
500
This early form of English polyphony consists of a perpetual canon at the unison, under which two voices sing a "pes" or foot.