Antiquity
The music created by the planets and stars in motion that we cannot hear.
What is The Harmony of the Spheres?
Who is Charlemagne?
The name of early polyphony. Can be either parallel or oblique.
What is organum?
The rockstar of the Ars Nova! He created the first cycle of the ordinary parts of the mass using a variety of techniques including isorhythm.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
The type of learning/education that developed in the Renaissance. Looking back on the ancients, this way of thinking prioritized the senses and individual ideas.
What is humanism?
These people believed that the world could be known and understood.
Who are the Greeks?
Where musical manuscripts were copied and the first notation was created. They are principally found in monestaries.
What is a scriptorium?
The earliest form of rhythmic notation based on poetic meters.
What are the rhythmic modes?
The composer of many chants, including liturgical plays. She was famous for her visions and mystical writings.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
This technological innovation changed the Western world--including music--by being able to more cheaply spread information.
What is the printing press?
Music that has only one melody line. Characterized Western music up the middle of the Medieval Period.
What is monophony?
The famous musical teacher/theorist who created the system of solemnization (ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la) and had a hand named after him.
Who is Guido of Arezzo?
Leonin and Perotin were two generations of composers who advanced polyphony as part of this school of composition.
What is the Notre Dame School?
The music theorist who wrote "De Institutione Musica" in the Late Antique Period. His writings allowed the early Greek music to enter the Christian context.
Who is Boethius?
In Renaissance music, an often used technique where the musical idea passes from line to line.
What is imitation?
The philosopher who first described the perfect intervals in music.
Who is Pythagoras?
A system of early rhythmic notation based off classical poetry.
What are the rhythmic modes?
The name of the line that holds the chant in a polyphonic work.
What is a cantus firmus? (or Vox principalis or tenor)
The "rockstar" of the Renaissance who was famous for his cyclic masses and motets. He was a member of the third generation of Renaissance composers.
Who is Josquin Desprez?
The Renaissance theorist who allowed for dissonances if they expressed the text, particularly in Italian madrigals.
Who is Zarlino?
The ways that the Greeks divided the tetrachord (diatonic, enharmonic, chromatic).
What are genera?
In the Ars Nova, these are the signs that set division of the notes at the beginning of the piece. Additionally, the main inventor of many of the ideas in the Ars Nova.
What are mensuration signs and who is Philippe de Vitry?
A polyphonic work that is not considered a full work by itself. Later, these were excerpted and became the first motets.
What is a clasulae?
The Renaissance music theorist who wrote the 8 rules of harmony, most of which we still follow today.
Who is Tinctoris?
The name for Renaissance masses where the same music would be used in each part of the mass ordinary.
What are cyclic masses?