composers
style movement or subcategory there of
genres
Specific musical techniques
context
100

Notre Dame Polyphony 

3+ voice (triplum, quadruplum) 

Who is Perotin?

100

Rhythmic modes

Viderunt Omnes

What is Notre Dame Polyphony?

100

4+ voiced polyphonic piece on secular poetry in Italian or English; late Renaissance

What is Madrigal?

100

A repeated rhythmic pattern seen in the tenor of a polyphonic piece

What is Talea?

100

English Renaissance

Monarch 

Allowed catholics to practice under protestant reign

Who is Queen Elizabeth I?

200


Micrologos

Pre-1200


Who is Guido of Arezzo?

200

3 divisions

 Genres:  hymn, psalters, chorales

What is the Reformation?

200

Self -contained genre that emerged at the end of the Medieval era; defined polyphonic choral music for centuries

What is Motet?

200

Six rhythmic patterns used s the rhythmic construct in Notre Dame Polyphony

What are rhythmic modes?
200

Pre-1200

Attributed to Gregorian Chant

Who is Pope Gregory?
300

Ars Nova

Polyphonic mass

Who is Guillame de Machuaut?

300

Faburden

3 voices

3rds and 6ths

What is Contenance Angloise?

300

Medieval non-liturgical sacred pieces in Latin

What is Versus, conductus, Laude?

300

Repeated melodic pattern seen in the Isorhythmic technique

What is color?

300

One of the first notated and widely distributed books of Gregorian chant; attributed to Leonin

What is the Magnus liber organi?

400

High Italian Renaissance

Early madrigal 

Who is Jacques Arcadelt? 

400

Fa-la-la

Madrigal and Church Anthem 

Inspired by Italian styles

What is the English Renaissance?
400

Self-contained section with a cadence inserted into a medieval polyphonic piece; forerunner to the motet

What is Clasuale?

400

One tenor note against many notes in the upper voice

What is florid organum? 
400

Medieval performers of secular music

Who are Bards, Jongleurs, Minstrels?

500

Franco- Flemish 

Contemporaries include: Josquin and Isaac

  • Composed masses, motets

Who is Jacob Obrecht?

500

1300s in Italy; refers to Italian artistic style in that century

What is the Italian trecento? 

500

Italian forerunner to the madrigal

What is Frottola?

500

Schemes of poetic and musical repetition, each featuring a refrain, used in late medieval and 15the century French Chanson.

What is formes fixe?

500

Pope during council of Trent

Who is Pope Paul III?

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