Early Medieval
One of the earliest forms of music in the church sung by monks.
What is Gregorian Chant?
The opposite of Sacred Music
What is Secular music?
Period of “New Art” in 14th Century France
What is Ars Nova?
Renaissance means _______________
What is rebirth?
A sacred choral piece, but not part of the Mass Ordinary
What is a motet?
The music of this era was tied closely to the __________________ which was the cultural and educational center of Europe.
What is the Catholic Church?
____________ and trouvères were poet-musicians who wrote songs about love, chivalry, and daily life.
What are troubadours?
Began to accompany voices more-- especially in secular music.
What are instruments?
Movement that focused on the individual, human reason, and earthly life (not only the divine)
What was Humanism?
A secular vocal work, usually written for several voices, often about love, nature, or mythology.
What is a madrigal?
The language of Gregorian Chants
What is Latin?
New musical texture that came after monophonic.
What is polyphonic?
The earliest form of a piano in the Church
What is the organ?
voices echoing each other (early version of “rounds”)
What is Imitation?
central to social life at courts and included the Pavane and Galliard
What is Dance music?
The first form of early notation that started in the 9th century.
What are neumes?
The language of secular music.
What is the vernacular?
Guillaume de _______________ composed the first complete polyphonic Mass Ordinary
Machaut
music reflects the text’s meaning (happy = fast/major; sad = slow/minor)
What is Word Painting?
Emerged in the later Renaissance alongside polyphony. This music sometimes featured chords moving together
What is homophony?
Made up of Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
What is the Mass?
Two Notre Dame composers who developed early polyphony (organum)
Who were Léonin & Pérotin?
Composer who wrote the Ars Nova treatise (1322), describing innovations: Philippe _____________
de Vitry
Invention that allowed music books to spread quickly
What is the Printing Press?
Movement that significantly changed Music in worship and questioned the previous center of society.
What is the Protestant Reformation?