Ancient Greece
The 13th Century
The 14th Century
The Renaissance
The Reformation
100

Greek philosopher and mathematician who is credited with the discovery of pitch. Thank the blacksmith!

Who is Pythagoras?

100

Traveling poets/musicians who sang at court and sure sang a lot about love

What are troubadors?
100

Melody with accompaniment (usually chords)

What is homophony?

100

A musical form that repeats the melody in more than one staggered part. No, it is not a weapon.

What is a canon?

100

German theologian who played the flute and believed that everyone should be included in worship and made religious texts more accessible for the common people. Nailed it!

Who is Martin Luther?

200

One of the early developers of music education and the author of the "Republic". Believed that music deals in concepts such as emotion and morals.

Who is Plato?

200

One of the first important women composers and a contributor to Gregorian chant; wrote 77 chants with music that involves more leaps and a drone

Who is Hildegard of Bingen?
200

Composed by Carl Orff in 1937 and is very cliché for action scenes in movie trailers despite depicting folk songs from the 14th century

What is Carmina Burana?

200

Renaissance composer who composed El Grillo and was one of the first composers to print his music via Gutenburg's printing press

Who is Josquin des Prez?

200

French theologian who developed the Christian theology known as Calvinism and thought "fancy" music was "a deadly and devilish poison". No homophony!

Who is John Calvin?

300

A doctrine often traced to Pythagoras and fusing together mathematics, music, and astronomy. In essence, the heavenly bodies, being large objects in motion, must produce music.

What is Harmony of the Spheres?

300

The very first "Christmas song" that started as a plainchant but was developed in polyphony by Leonin and Perotin

What is Viderunt Omnes?

300

Renaissance composer who disproved the Harmony of the Spheres and proclaimed nothing written before 1430's was worth hearing (liked those newfangled jams)

Johannes Tinctoris

300

Renaissance wind instrument, with a double reed enclosed in a cap so the player's lips do not touch the reed

What is crumhorn?

300

16th-century collection of popular dances published by Tielman Susato; the first big INSTRUMENTS ONLY work!

What is Danserye?

400

Ancient Greek reed instrument, usually played in pairs (Plato hated this! Bad instrument!)

What is the aulos?

400

First known composer to write music with more than two voices (3 and 4 part organum!) and was Leonin's protegee; composed the best version of Viderunt Omnes

Who is Perotin?

400

The most important composer of the 14th century, who worked in Paris and composed over 140 works

Who is Guillaume de Machaut?

400

A plucked stringed instrument with a long neck bearing frets. When you think of the Renaissance, you think of this instrument

What is lute?

400

The church mode that is the same as a major scale (C major)

What is ionian?
500

Believed that music should be understood by ear and by melodies, not by math

Who is Aristoxenus?
500

The first composer of polyphonic music and author of "The Great Book"

Who is Leonin?

500

Establishes a system where notes get a certain rhythmic value and crafted Ars Nova (1322)

Who is Phillipe de Vitry?

500

Pitch orders that date back to ancient Greece, adopted by the Roman Catholic church in the 6th century

What are church modes?

500

The church mode that is the same as a minor scale (A minor)

What is aeolian?

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