Terms
Music served for religious purposes
What is Sacred Music
an Italian monk, who created a set of syllables to help singers remember melodies
Who is Guido de Arezzo?
a fretted instrument with a pear-shaped hollow body and a predecessor to the modern guitar.
What is a Lute?
A period that lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
When Were The Middle Ages?
The Kings of England and France begin a war – fought off and on – that would last 100 years.
What was The Hundred Year War?
A single melody played, written, or sung with no harmony
What is Monophony?
A female writer, philosopher, visionary,nun, and composer
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
Produces sound when a stream of air directed across a hole in the instrument creates a vibration of air at the hole. There are 6 holes on this instrument.
What is the Medieval Flute?
Wrote down what the author said, similar to the voice recognition systems we have today
What is a scribe?
A series of crop failures and bad weather that struck large parts of Europe.
What was The Great Famine?
Music featuring two or more independent melodies played, written, or sung simultaneously
What is Polyphony?
The first known significant composer of polyphonic organum. He was probably French, probably lived and worked in Paris at the Notre-Dame Cathedral and was the earliest member of the Notre Dame school of polyphony and the ars antiqua style who is known by name.
Who is Leonin?
a percussion instrument that was used to provide rhythm and accompany other instruments.
What are the Drums?
Wars fought for religious purpose
What are the crusades?
The loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire,
What was The Fall of the Western Roman Empire?
A musical style that was often used in France and the Burgundian Low Countries in the 14th century
What is Ars Nova?
Known for his development in three and four voice polyphony
Who is Perotin?
An internal-duct flute with holes for seven fingers and a thumb hole
What is the Recorder?
This type of architecture thrived in the middle ages
What is Gothic architecture?
A pandemic that ravaged Europe between 1347 and 1351, taking a proportionately greater toll of life than any other known epidemic or war up to that time.
What was "The Black Death"?
Unaccompanied, monophonic music used in liturgy of the Western Church
What is Plainchant
A French bishop, composer, and poet. Author of ars nova
Who is
Philippe De Vitry?
Earliest trombone, invented in the 15th century. It has thicker walls than the modern trombone, imparting a softer tone, and its bell is narrower.
What is the Sackbut?
These People cut hair, operated, and fixed peoples teeth.
What were The Barbers of The Middle Ages?
Lead a voyage westwards on the Atlantic Ocean, hoping to reach Asia. Instead, landed in the Caribbean, beginning the period of European settlement and colonization in the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?