Chant
Unison
Music revolved around this central service of the Roman Catholic Church
Mass
A traveling poet-musician from southern France
Troubadour
The earliest version of the trombone
sacbut
Chant was (incorrectly) name after this person
Pope Gregory
The long note held out under the melody
drone
The sections of the Mass that changed depending on the season and time of year
The Proper
German singers of courtly love
Minnesingers
Guitar like instrument with a rounded back
lute
He used his hand to teach musical notation
Guido of Arezzo
Earliest type of musical notation
Neumes (squiggles)
The cycle of daily services for the Roman Catholic Church
Offices
Troubadours sang about love, politics, war, and this other type of song...
dance songs
Piano like instrument that plucked stings, instead of using hammers like modern day pianos
harpsichord
Perotin was one of the first to make this change to music
2 or more lines of melody at the same time
polyphony
The first time of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Church
Kyrie
Female poet-musicians from France
trobairitz
Stringed instrument that produced sound from strings inside a wooden box
hurty-gurty
Cassia of Contranople and Hildagard of Bingen were the first....
female composers
Chant was sung in this language
Latin
The first harmony was added to chant in church by adding this type of voice
These ideals and sets of principal values were expected to be followed by all men of society
What is chivalry?
This special middle ages instrument was excavated from Denmark
lure
This person added a third note to harmony, creating a triad
John Dunstaple