Medieval Society
Church Music
Secular Music
Plainchant Written Elements
Peeps to Know
100

Which gender was allowed to read and write?

The men.

100

What was the name of the plainchant that was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church?

Gregorian Chant

100
What country became the center of musical development after 1150?

France

100

True or false: Plainchant has no meter or sense of beat.

True

100
Who was the pope that medieval church music was named after?

Pope Gregory I

200

What are the three classes of society?

Clergy, nobility, peasantry.

200

What are the pitch symbols used in plainchant notation called?

Neumes

200

Secular music was mainly passed on in this way, due to the illiteracy of the general population.

Aurally passed down.

200

What is this called?

A Clef

200
The name given to French composers active in noble courts and villages.

Troubadours/Trouveres

300
What was the center of everyday life - including the towns and society?

The Roman Catholic Church

300

The name for plainchant where some syllables are sung over many pitches.

Melismatic

300
What is the name of musicians who were an essential source of information and often sang songs composed by troubadours?

Minstrels

300

What are these that mark the end of a phrase?

A barline.

300

A German nun who was the first woman composer.

Hildegard Von Bingen

400

The term used for the standard spoken text and music that made up a worship service.

Liturgy

400

What is it called when a soloist alternates with a choir in a plainchant?

Responsorial plainchant.

400

Most rhythms of the late middle ages were divided by this number, to represent the holy trinity.

Three

400

These asteriks were used in chants to mark what?

The change in voices.

400

A French composer who wrote both secular and sacred music.

Guillaume de Machaut

500
What is the collection of the most frequently used chants in the Catholic liturgy called?

Liber Usualis

500
What is the school where boys were taught to read and perform chants for worship?

Schola Canotrum

500

The first written harmony moved in this fashion at the interval of a fourth or fifth.

Parallel motion

500


Is this music melismatic or syllabic?

Syllabic

500

Who were the choirmasters of Notre Dame that were among the first notable known scholars?

Leonin and Perotin

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