Music Terms
Med. Composers
Ren. Composers
Sacred Music
Secular Music
100
One melody with no harmony.
What is monophony?
100
Wrote "Ordo Virtutum", the first musical drama.
Who is Hildegarde de Bingen?
100
This Belgium composer was considered the first the exemplify Renaissance characteristics in his music.
Who is Josquin?
100
The definition of sacred.
What is religious?
100
The definition of secular.
What is non-religious?
200
Two or more lines of independent melodies that are played at the same time.
What is polyphony?
200
The most famous troubadour, this Frenchman is credited with inventing the motet.
Who is Adam de Halle?
200
This Italian composer is credited with saving music in the Catholic church.
Who is Palestrina?
200
This type of sacred music contains a single vocal line with no instruments.
What is plainchant?
200
Lower-class traveling musicians who sang about the accomplishments of others.
Who are minstrels?
300
Vocal music sung without instruments.
What is a cappella?
300
This Italian monk invented the first music staff.
Who is Guido d'Arezzo
300
This composer is considered the man whose music bridged the gap between Renaissance & Baroque music.
Who is Gabrieli?
300
The most famous type of plainchant.
What is Gregorian Chant?
300
Upper-class traveling musicians who sang about love.
Who are troubadours?
400
A melody that is repeated later in a song, but is changed slightly (usually sung at a higher or lower pitch).
What is imitation?
400
This French composer wrote the first Mass.
Who is Guillaume du Machaut?
400
This man wrote beautiful masses - over 100 of them!
Who is Palestrina?
400
This style of music has 2 or more independent melody lines that are played at the same time.
What is polyphony/polyphonic?
400
This form of secular music was secular in the Medieval era and sacred in the Renaissance era.
What is a motet?
500
When 2 or more notes move together in harmony, creating chords.
What is homophony?
500
The religious order members who typically wrote music in the Medieval Era.
Who are monks and nuns?
500
Free points!! :D
500
The Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, & Angus Dei make up this polyphonic choral work.
What is the Mass?
500
This was the main form of secular music during the Renaissance.
What is a madrigal?
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