Polyphony
Troubadours & Trouveres
Motet
French Ars Nova
Italian Trecento
100
organum
What is the name for early polyphony in medieval treatises?
100
Troubadours
What is the term for medieval poet-composers who flourished in the south of France during the twelfth and early-thirteenth centuries?
100
double motet
What is the name of a motet with three parts? (two texted and a tenor below)
100
Philippe de Vitry
Who is the composer and theorist who wrote the treatise "Ars Nova" in 1322-3?
100
trecento
What is the name for the 1300s in Italy ("the three-hundreds")?
200
Notre Dame
What is the name of the cathedral in Paris where there was a great flourishing of polyphonic settings of chants in the late 12th century?
200
Goliard
What is a derogatory term for students or clerics who dropped out of monasteries or church schools?
200
incipit
What is the name for the first few words of a text (where the names for motets come from)?
200
ars antiqua
What is the name for the music of the 13th century (Leonin, Perotin, etc.) and other previous periods?
200
madrigal
What is the name of the earliest form of secular polyphonic music in the trecento period?
300
Magnus liber organi
What is the name for the "Big Book of Organum" with polyphonic settings of chants by Leonin and Perotin?
300
jongleurs
Who are the medieval minstrels who entertained by singing other people's songs (sometimes with dancing bears)?
300
motetus
What is an alternate name for the duplum part of a motet?
300
talea
What is the name of the recurring rhythmic patterns in an isorhythmic tenor?
300
caccia
What is name of the Italian canonic secular polyphonic piece in the 14th century?
400
Musica enchiriadis
What is one of the ninth-century treatises on music that describes parallel organum?
400
fine amour
What is the French term for the concept of courtly love?
400
Franco of Cologne
Who is the 13th-century theorist who developed mensural notation?
400
Roman de Fauvel
What is a major manuscript source for isorhythmic motets in the 14th century?
400
Francesco Landini
Who was the blind organist who is most famous for composing ballate?
500
substitute clausula
What is a section of discant that can be swapped in for another setting?
500
Albigensian Crusades
What is an internal crusade in the south of France intended to destroy the Cathar sect, but in effect it wiped out civilized society?
500
Petrus de Cruce
Who is the composer in the late 13th century who is credited with introducing the semibreve (and dividing it into many notes)?
500
Messe de Nostre Dame
What is the first complete polyphonic setting of the Ordinary of the Mass by a single, named composer?
500
Squarcialupi Codex
What is the largest collection of music from the Italian Trecento period?
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