Gregorian Chant
This German nun was the first woman composer from whom musical works have survived.
Who is Hildgard von Bingen?
Poet-composers active in noble courts and villages.
What are troubadours?
Composers were mostly anonymous.
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This country became the center of musical development after 1150.
What is France?
This pope reorganized the Catholic liturgy, including its music.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
What is syllabic?
These musicians were an essential source of information and often sang songs composed by troubadours.
What are minstrels?
Plainchant is homophonic, containing thick harmonies.
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Most rhythms of the late middle ages were divided by this number, to represent the holy trinity.
What is three?
When a soloist alternates with a choir in plainchant.
What is responsorial?
A school where boys were taught to read and perform the chants for worship.
What is schola cantorum?
As opposed to the Latin used by the church, secular music was sung using this.
What are local languages?
Plainchant is sung acapella
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Secular music was mainly passed on in this way, due to the illiteracy of the general population.
What is aurally?
The pitch symbols used in plainchant notation.
What is a neume?
The standard spoken text and music that make up a worship service.
What is the liturgy?
One of two French choirmasters who were from the School of Notre Dame.
Who is Leonin?
Church choirs were made up of men, women, and boys.
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Between 700 and 900, monks in monasteries began experimenting with adding this to chants.
What is harmony?
A text setting in which some syllables are sung over many pitches.
What is melismatic?
A collection of the most frequently used chants in the Catholic liturgy.
What is the Liber Usualis?
The first written harmony moved in this fashion at the interval of a fourth or fifth.
What is parallel motion?
Plainchant has no meter and little sense of a beat.
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A French composer who wrote both secular and sacred music. His catalog is one of the largest surviving collections from the middle ages.
Who is G. de Machaut?
A variety of plainchant that was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church.
What is Gregorian Chant?