Characteristics of Secular Song
Entertainers
Poetic Types
French Secular Song
German Secular Song
100
Like plainsong it was monophonic.
What is single line notation?
100
Minstrels entertained by these methods.
What are card tricks, juggling and singing?
100
A love poem.
What is a Canso?
100
Area of France were troubadours flourished from the end of the 11th to the end of the 13th centuries.
What is Provence?
100
German secular "master" singers of the 15th-16th centuries.
Who are Meistersingers?
200
Unlike plainsong it was metrical and mostly in this meter
What is triple meter?
200
Minstrels roamed Europe in the Middle Ages entertaining in these places.
What are feudal courts?
200
A Satirical poem.
What is a Sirventes?
200
Number of troubadour poems that have been preserved.
What is 2600?
200
German secular "love song" singers of the 12-14th centuries.
Who are Minnesingers?
300
The songs were stronger and had a more regular beat or
What is rhythm?
300
Minstrels of low social order in England.
What is a Gleeman?
300
A plaint or lament on the death of an eminent person.
What is a Planh?
300
Area of France were trouveres flourished.
What is Northern France?
300
German poetry and song dealing with a variety of subjects including quasi-religious themes which used most often duple meter.
What is the minnelied?
400
These are rhythms that are short and recurrent.
What are patterns?
400
Minstrels of low social order in Germany.
What is a Gaukler?
400
A song often in dialogue form between a knight and shepherdess.
What is a Pastourelle?
400
Meaning of the terms troubadours and trouveres.
What is finders?
400
The "A" part of the bar form structure typical in most German songs of this period.
What is Stollen?
500
Language songs that were sung in opposition to the Latin of the plainsong.
What is vernacular?
500
Minstrels of low social order in France.
What is a Jongleurs?
500
An epic chronicle.
What is a Chanson de geste?
500
Number of trouveres melodies that have been preserved.
What is 1400?
500
The "B" part of the bar form structure typical in most German songs of this period.
What is Abgesang?
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