MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE

MEDIEVAL

100

Music that has religious content.  

Sacred

200

Musical content that is considered non-religious.

Secular

300

A musical sentence line that has both pitch and rhythm.

Melody

400

The underlying pulse of the music. 

Beat

500

A type of musician who travels from town to town telling stories of everyday life.  

Troubadour

RENAISSANCE

100

Another name for the work "Renaissance"

Rebirth

200

A famous artist in the Era

Leonardo Da Vinci

300

A Composer that created the idea of telling stories with an orchestra and singers on stage.  

Monteverdi

CHORAL

100

Sacred Music written with only one melody to sing in Latin with Biblical text.  

Gregorian Chant

200

To sing in a small group where each singer has a different melody to sing at the same time. 

Madrigal

300

Choral music that is sung with costumes and scenery.

Opera

400

Choral Music that tells a story yet is sung without costumes and scenery.  

Oratorio

500

A large work of music that is sacred in content and performed with instruments and voices. 

Mass

INSTRUMENTS

100

A keyboard that is built so that when the key is depressed, a plectrum plucks the string.  

Harpsichord

200

A type of wind instrument that requires a bag to blow into before the pitch can be heard.  

Bagpipe

300

A stringed instrument that operates with a crank and a wheel.

Hurdy Gurdy

400

A wind instrument made of wood.

Wooden Flute

500

A string instrument made of wood that is an ancestor of the guitar

Lute

MELODY

100

One melody alone with no accompanied harmony or 2nd melody

MONOPHONIC

200

2 or more different melodies that play at the same time.  

POLYPHONIC

300

1 MELODY accompanied by a harmony or background music.  

HOMOPHONIC