Historical Evidence
Vocabulary
People
Misc.
100

What is left of musical instruments and performance spaces. 

Physical Remains

100

The prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and ritual actions to be performed in a religious service.

Litergy

100
Numbers were the key to the universe and music was inseparable from numbers

Pythagoras

100

What are the two main paths of musical thought

Philosophical

System 

200
Preserved by notation or being passed on through orally.

Music Itself

200

A single melodic line without harmony or accompaniment  

Monophony

200

The three types of people belonging to the Medieval Class System

Nobility

Clergy

Peasants

200

Name 2 Bas instruments

Shawm

Trumpet

Percussion- Kettle Drum, small bells, cymbals

300

Depictions of musicians, instruments, and performances. 

Visual Images

300

Voices sing together on independent parts

Polyphony

300

Music could be used to enjoyment and expression along with education

Aristotle

300

Name 2 of 3 ways musical ideas were spread and retained

Trade

Documents

Traditions

400

Surviving documents and works describing music in society

Writings

400

A unison unaccompanied song,  particularly a liturgical song with Latin text. Plainchant was popular in the Christian Church between the 9th and 13th centuries

Plainchant

400

Only certain music was suitable was to not corrupt one's mind

Plato

400

Name 2 Haut instruments

Harp 

Lute 

Flute

Recorder

500

Which type of evidence is the most minimal

Music Itself

500

one’s ethical character or way of being and behaving

Ethos

500

A poet-composer of Southern France who wrote monophonic songs in approximately the 12th or 13th centuries thought to have created many of the first notated and preserved songs. 

Troubadours

500

A sign used in the notation of chant to indicate a certain number of notes and general melodic direction

Neume

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