Composers
Chant styles
Definitions
Forms/Genres
Miscellaneous
100
1st significant composers of polyphonic music known to music history
Who is Leonius and Perotinus?
100
one choir answered by another
What is antiphonal chant?
100
a bowed instrument used in secular music
What is the Vielle?
100
monophonic music sung in the celebration of Christian liturgy
What is Gregorian chant?
100
The Middle Ages covered the time period between the dates of:
What is 400-1400AD
200
The best French master composer of the Ars Nova as well as a famous poet
Who is Guillame de Machaut?
200
music with more than one line or part sounding at a time
What is Polyphony?
200
a repeated rhythmic pattern that unifies the structure of a composition
What is Isorhythm?
200
a commemoration and re-creation of the last supper
What is Mass?
200
Ancient Greek philosophers like Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle considered music to be closely tied to the laws of this science
What is astronomy?
300
the most famous Italian composer of the 14th century. Blind organist.
Who is Francesco Landini?
300
a solo voice answered by a choir
What is responsorial chant?
300
same music is repeated for all stanzas of the poem
What is strophic?
300
earliest polyphonic music; based upon chant as cantus firmus
What is organum?
300
Pythagorus was responsible for the development of this scale
What is the chromatic scale?
400
French theorist, composer noted for treatise entitled Ars Nova
Who is Philip de Vitry?
400
a given melody, often drawn from a chant, which is used as the basis of a new polyphonic composition
What is Cantus Firmus?
400
Songs about "courtly love"
What is secular song?
400
two part composition, with upper part florid and lower part slow moving, often played by an instrument
What is a madrigal?
400
This person wrote the treatise de Institution Musica which laid the foundation for medieval education in music
Who is Boethius?
500
codified a system of writing down music in such a manner that the shapes of the notes indicate their relative durations known as mensural notation
Who is Franco of Cologne?
500
a Short section of polyphony in an otherwise monophonic chant
What is Clausula?
500
Christian liturgy set to music
What is liturgical music?
500
a treble dominated style with one principal melody and two supporting parts
What is a motet?
500
The plainsong (Gregorian chant) is written based on the musical system of ______________
What is modes?
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