Greek Music
The word “music” comes from these 9 goddesses of art, music, and creativity.
Muses
This instrument consisted of two pipes and produced a low, clarinet-like sound.
Aulos
Invaders from the North and little education were two reasons the Middle Ages were known as this.
The Dark Ages
The greek funeral song, Epitaph of Seikilos, was written on this.
a marble tombstone (or stele)
This god is often pictures playing a lyre.
Apollo
He discovered the relationship between vibrations and pitch.
Pythagoras
This instrument was named after a satyr (half-goat, half-man)
Pan pipes
Another name for Gregorian Chant.
Plain Chant
Both the Sanctus/Benedictus and the Agnus Dei are in this language.
Latin
Music of the Church.
Sacred
Name 3 places music was used in Greek society.
Marriages
Funerals
Religious ceremonies
Staged dramas
Folk music
Epic poetry
Olympic and Pythian games
This instrument was stringed and made out of a tortoise shell.
Lyre
Kyrie, Santus/Benedictus, and Agnus Dei are all part of this type of Church service.
Parts of the Mass or liturgy
The title of the play in which we heard a Greek tragedy chorus.
Orestes
Chant with many notes on one syllable.
melismatic chant
These scales represented different emotions.
Modes or Modal Scales
This instrument used water to create air pressure.
Hydraulis
This man was famous for codifying Gregorian Chant
Pope Gregory I
Perotin and Leonin were the first composer to write this kind of sacred music.
Organum or polyphonic music
The language of the people and what secular music in the Middle Ages was written in.
vernacular
Name 2 things we use to determine was Greek music sounded like.
Greek musical notation as well as drawings and paintings of music being performed
This instrument used a plectrum to pluck the strings.
Kithara
This man added 2 lines to create a 4 line staff as well as creating today’s solfege.
Guido of Arrezo
The first female composer
Hildegard of Bingen
Poet-musicians who worked for the courts of lords and king. Both words mean “composer”.
Troubadours and/or Trouveres