Medieval
Renaissance
Sacred
Secular
Composers
100

The Middle Ages begins in this year

What is 476 AD

100

The dates for the Renaissance Era 

1450-1600

100

Sacred music was always in this language

Latin

100

This type of choir piece was usually based on a love poem

madrigal

100

This Medieval composer, writer, and intellectual was a nun and started her own religious order

Hildegaard von Bingen

200

Early medieval music was centered around these institutions:

Monasteries & convents

200

Renaissance means this:

Rebirth

200

What were not allowed into churches in the Medieval or Renaissance eras?

Instruments

200

Hearing this tone color makes it easy to identify secular music

Instruments

200

This Renaissance composer is considered the "Savior of Church Music" because he stopped a ban on polyphony in the church

Palestrina

300

As religious life became centered in cities, these became the center for sacred music:

Cathedrals

300

Most Renaissance music is this texture

Polyphonic

300

An important French cathedral beginning in the late Middle Ages 

Notre Dame

300

The term meaning the language that the people who live there speak

Vernacular

300

This late medieval composer lived and wrote many motets for the pope in the Vatican 

Josquin des Prez

400

The primary style of music used for the first 500+ years of the Medieval period

Chant

400

Most Renaissance music is for human voices only, also known as

A cappella

400

This genre of Renaissance polyphony was composed in addition to Masses for private worship

Motets

400

This medieval genre of secular music often featured singing and instruments together celebrating a victory or honoring nobility

Carol

400

This composer, who lived from 1300-1377 is best known for his Messe de Notre Dame, one of the first examples of large-scale polyphony

Guillaume de Machaut

500
A genre of music where parallel voices were added above the original line of chant

Organum

500

The belief that people can shape their own world and create things that are good and beautiful

Humanism

500

These 5 texts are sung at every Catholic service

Ordinary of the Mass

500

This pair of secular dances were played by only instruments.  The first was in duple meter & the second in triple meter.

Pavane & Galliard

500

Two great composers from the Notre Dame of Paris in the late Middle Ages:

Leoninus & Perotinus

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