The Middle Ages
What years were the Middle Ages?
450-1450
What type of Musical Texture is Gregorian Chant?
Monophonic
Female troubadours and trouveres
What was the name of early middle ages polyphony?
Organum
What is the translation for "Ars Nova"
New Art
What major disease killed 1/3 of Europe during the Middle Ages?
The Black Death/Plague
Hildegard von Bingen added what to Gregorian Chant?
The Trouveres lived in?
Northern France
Who were the two composers who first developed organized organum?
Leonin and Perotin
Francesco Landini had what disability?
Blindness
What were the 3 social classes in the Middle Ages?
1. Peasantry
2. Nobility
3. Clergy
Where were Gregorian Chants kept?
Only in the Church.
Who wrote the piece "A Chantar" (I Must Sing)?
Beatriz, Countess of Dia
How many voice parts did Perotin write for in his Organum?
3-5
Ecco La Primavera (Spring has Come) is what type of dance song?
Ballata
What is the name of the early woodwind instruments played during the middle ages (Hint: King Henry VIII wrote a piece for them)
Crum Horn
What are the 5 movements of the Mass?
1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus Benedictus
5. Agnus Dei
What is the other name for the Minstrels?
Jongleurs
What was the name of the school that Perotin and Leonin were professors at?
The Notre Dame School of Music
Machaut's "Puis qu'en oubli sui de vous" is about what?
(Gross)
What is the name of the book Dante wrote during the middle ages?
The Divine Comedy
Name 4 of the 8 church modes.
Ionian
Dorian
Phrygian
Lydian
Mixolydian
Aeolian
Locrian
What language did the Troubadours sing in?
Provencal
What was the name of the collection of Organum Leonin started and Perotin finished?
Magnus Liber Organi (Great Book of Organum)
What is the specific name of the 5 movements of the mass performed every day? (Hint: Machaut based his Notre Dame Mass around this)
The mass ordinary