Vocabulary
Chronology
Genres and Styles
Social Context/Function of Music
Miscellaneous
100
The most important service in the Roman Church.
What is the Mass?
100
These dates mark the beginning and end of the middle ages, roughly.
What are 500 and 1400/1500?
100
This group sang secular music in the south of France and spoke langue d'oc
What are Troubadours?
100
To amplify voices, to create a sense of beauty, to reflect divine beauty, etc.
What is the reason monks and nuns chanted in the middle ages?
100
These genres are difficult to know much about today because they were not preserved by those in power.
What are dance and popular music?
200
The portion of the Mass which does not change.
What is the Ordinary
200
These two periods come before and after the Middle Ages, which is where "Middle" comes from.
What are classical antiquity and the renaissance?
200
This group sang secular music, but they also included some religious topics in their songs, such as the crusades.
What are Minnesingers?
200
The only place where women had access in intellectual life in the Middle Ages.
What is the convent?
200
These composers were written about in a later document, but did not put their names on their music. Without this later document, we would not know that they wrote these pieces.
Who are Leonin(us) and Perotin(us)?
300
The piece used by Guido or Arezzo to teach solfège syllables, which helped singers remember the placement of tones and semitones.
What is Ut queant laxis?
300
Christianity inherited the singing of Psalm tones from this religion.
What is Judaism?
300
This style features an active upper voice which sings 2-3 notes for each note in the lower voice.
What is discant?
300
This was a fear of Saint Augustine.
What is the fear that music would be enjoyed for itself, rather than enjoyed as a reflection of the divine beauty, containing no beauty apart from divinity?
300
This movement featured incredibly complex rhythms, and is considered the height of rhythmic complexity up until the twentieth century.
What is the Ars Subtillior?
400
An existing melody, often taken from a Gregorian chant, on which a new polyphonic work is based: used especially for melodies presented in long notes.
What is cantus firmus.
400
The Ars Nova occurred during this century.
What is the 14th?
400
Words added to a Discant Clausula,
What is a motet?
400
Nobility, Clergy, Peasantry.
What are the three classes of the Middle Ages?
400
These three modern countries made up the Holy Roman Empire of Charlelamagne's day.
What are France, Germany, Italy (Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland)?
500
This narrative poem satirized political corruption in secular and ecclesiastical circles. It features a jackass who rises from the stable to a position of power
What is Roman de Fauvel?
500
These are the stages of polyphony. (stage number, name, and description)
What is Stage 1: early polyphony, parallel and oblique motion. Stage 2: free organum, parallel, oblique, similar, and contrary motion. Stage 3: Aquitanian polyphony, Aquitaine, France, florid organum and discant. Stage 4: Notre Dame polyphony, essentially Aquitanian polyphony plus rhythmic modes notated in ligatures?
500
These songs occur in one of a particular set of forms.
What formes fixes chansons?
500
Counterpoing, harmony, the centrality of notation, the idea of composition as distinct form performance.
What are the four important concepts of Western music inaugurated by polyphony?
500
These meters were possible with the development of mensural notation. (Extra 100 points if you can draw a diagram of mensural notation)
What are imperfect meters?
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