Sacred
A type of unmeasured monophonic melody featuring Latin text.
What is Gregorian chant?
A very famous Medieval fabled couple.
Who are Robin and Marion?
Instrumental music in the Medieval Era tended to double these parts.
What is vocal parts?
A term for the same melody repeated with every stanza of the poem.
What is strophic?
He codified plainchants.
Who is Pope Gregory?
This occurs when you take an existing plainchant and an another line at either the 4th or the 5th either above or below.
What is parallel organum?
A type of choral work that featured polyphony and a mixture of both sacred and secular texts and or melodies.
What is a polytextual motet?
The century that witnessed a steady growth in the scope and importance of instrumental music.
What is the 14th century?
A secular French polyphonic work for voices.
What is chanson?
One of the few female composers we know of from the Medieval era.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
More than one music line. The bottom line consists of sustained pitches from a Gregorian chant. The upper line is improvised using rhythmic modes.
What is Organum Duplum?
Wandering poet-composers from the south of France.
What are troubadours?
The two principle bowed string instruments of the Middle Ages.
What is the rebec and vielle?
An approach to music making where music is created in the moment of performance. This describes much of instrumental music from this period.
What is improvisation?
He is the first known composer associated with polyphony.
Who is Leonin?
Perotin expanded polyphony to include this type of sacred three-voice composition.
What is organum triplum?
Courtly love songs often centred around themes of love and this medieval knightly system with its religious, moral, and social code.
What is chivalry?
This reed instrument is the ancestor of the oboe.
What is the shawm?
The term for loud or outdoor instruments.
What is haut?
This composer composed both sacred and secular pieces.
Who is Machaut?
The church that fostered the development of polyphony.
What is the Notre Dame Cathedral?
A sung dance form common in late medieval France?
What is an estampie?
A plucked string instrument with a rounded back (of Middle Eastern origin.)
What is the lute?
This term means "new art". In musical terms, this resulted in developments in rhythm, metre, harmony, and counterpoint.
What is ars nova?
A famous troubadour.
Who is Raimbaut de Vaqueiras?