Medieval Terms
This country became the center of musical development after 1150.
These pieces were written for voice and lute.
What are lute songs?
In the 16th century, this country became the cultural center of Europe.
What is Italy?
The first text in the Mass Ordinary
What is the Kyrie?
This German composer wrote music at an extraordinary rate. He was a master of counterpoint and wrote many fugues.
Who is Bach?
Secular music was mainly passed on in this way, due to the illiteracy of the general population/
What is aurally?
A polyphonic sacred work made up of five sections
What is a mass?
Enabled books and music to be mass-produced and accessible to the general public.
What is the printing press?
The third text in the Mass Ordinary
What is the Credo?
He was an Italian composer who was also an ordained Priest. He wrote many forms, but his most famous are his concertos, mainly The Four Seasons.
Who is Vivaldi?
Poet-composers active in noble courts and villages.
What are troubadours?
A piece for several solo voices set to a short poem, usually about love.
What is a madrigal
A philosophy that focuses on the value of people, as opposed to gods and deities.
What is Humanism?
The fourth text in the Mass Ordinary
What is the Sanctus?
A master of Italian opera and English oratorio. His most famous works are his oratorios, the most renowned being The Messiah.
Who is Handel?
Most rhythms of the late middle ages were divided by this number, to represent the holy trinity.
What is three?
A polyphonic sacred work using texts other than the mass ordinary.
What is a motet?
This wealthy Italian family became important patrons of the arts, literature, and architecture.
Who are the Medicis?
The second text in the Mass Ordinary
What is the Gloria?
Considered the greatest English composer from the 16th to the 19th centuries. When he died, he was buried under the organ of Westminster Abbey, where he served as the organist.
Who is Purcell?
The first written harmony moved in this fashion at the interval of a fourth or fifth.
What is parallel motion?
The manuscripts for this music was not as carefully preserved, therefore few survived.
What is instrumental music?
This musical device, in which composers reflect the text of a piece using musical elements, became widely used during this time.
What is word painting?
The final text in the Mass Ordinary
What is the Agnus Dei?
He was an Italian composer from the early Baroque period who wrote what is considered to be the first great opera, Orfeo.
Who is Monteverdi?