Composers
Our first main female composer recorded in history.
What is Hildegard of Bingen? (1098–1179)
Human fascination with...
What is Riddles and puzzles?
Composed anonymously, belief in "Divine Composition".
What is Gregorian Melodies?
Music of the Church.
What is Plainchant?
Set order of church services.
What is liturgy?
Developed a new musical style known as Ars Nova.
What is Guillame de Machuat? (c. 1300–1377)
Wandering, versatile entertainers.
What is Minstrels?
Highly original style of music, still resembles Gregorian chant.
What is Hildegard of Bingen? (1098–1179)
Single most important feature in development of Western music
What is Early Polyphony?
Reenactment of Christ’s Last Supper.
What is The Mass?
Léonin’s successor.
What is Pérotin? (fl. c. 1200)
French poet-musicians, aristocratic courts.
What is Troubadours and trouvères?
Brilliant imagery, creative language.
What is Poetry?
Polyphonic art blossomed, second voice added to Gregorian Melody.
What is Organum?
Codified church music.
What is Pope Gregory the Great? (r. 590–604)
Compiled the Great Book of Organum. (Magnus liber organi)
What is Léonin? (fl. 1150–c. 1201)
Music, mathematics, geometry, astronomy considered essential education.
What is Quadrivium?
Group repetition of leader’s text-music phrase.
What is Responsorial?
First in the Ordinary.
What is Kyrie?
Symbolic three-part form.
What is Trinity?
First composer of polyphonic music whose name we know.
What is Léonin? (fl. 1150–c. 1201)
Unrequited love, idealized love, chivalry, laments, political and moral ditties, chronicles of the Crusades.
What are poems?
Daily Religious Duties start at 2am.
What is Arduous Discipline?
Convey meaning of the words.
What is melismas?
Variable portions and Fixed portions of the Mass.
What is Proper and Ordinary?