Secular
An addition to an existing chant is referred to as a _____.
A trope.
The __________ is an instrument that is a predecessor to the guitar.
Lute
This musical period means "irregularly shaped," and at first it was used to refer to pearls.
Baroque
What is the name of the group of singers, who primarily sang secular music in Occitan (not Old French).
Troubadours
Sequences are sung at which point in the mass?
After the Alleluia
When a piece of music contains several stanzas that are all sung to the same melody, they can be described as ______.
strophic.
What type of music is the Chanson de geste?
It is a French vernacular song, specifically an epic.
If a piece of music is written in 1377, it is part of which musical period?
(late) Medieval
The songs of the Trouvéres were preserved in manuscript anthologies called _________.
Chansonniers (meaning songbook).
This voice carries the main melody in Aquitanian polyphony and Notre Dame polyphony.
The tenor (or after 1270, the Cantus firmus).
The epitaph of Seikilos belongs in to musical period?
Antiquity (ancient Greek).
What secular song is written by Comtessa of Dia?
A Chantar
In which year was Hildegard of Bingen born?
1098.
Dialogues that were added to the liturgy, that included processions and stylized actions.
Liturgical drama
The earliest types of medieval dance music to be written down were the _______ and the _______.
carole and estampie
At the end of which period did one third of Europe parish from the Plague?
Medieval
These modes (by number) share the final E.
Modes 3 and 4. (Phrygian and Mixolydian)
He was a famous writer of sequence texts. He was once credited with the invention of the sequence, although we now know he was refining a practice that developed beforehand. There is a full special reading dedicated to him in your textbook.
Notker Balbulus (ca. 840-912).
Who warned against the "dangers of music" and worried that music may bring "too much pleasure"?
St. Augustine (354-430).
This style of polyphonic music occurs when both parts move at about the same pace, with one to three notes in the upper part for each note of the lower voice.
Discant style
In this era, the musical textures of imitative counterpoint and homophony dominate music.
Renaissance