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Middle Ages History
Middle Ages Music
Renaissance History
Renaissance Music
Composers and Key Figures
100

Name the three classes of the feudal system

Peasantry

Nobility

Clergy

100

What texture was Gregorian Chant?

Monophonic

100

Intellectual movement, focused on human life and its accomplishments

Humanism

100

Musical depiction of specific words

Word Painting

100

Roman Catholic Nun.  Wrote on many subjects including music, theology, science, and medicine

Hildegard von Bingen

200

Which class was the primary source of information? Why?

Clergy, they were the only educated class.

200
Neumes did not show any rhythmic information. Why?

Monks were the only ones singing at the time, neumes functioned to remind them of the tune.

200

Martin Luther's movement which protested the Catholic Church

Protestant Reformation

200

Polyphonic sacred choral work made up in the five sections, originally set in Latin

Mass

200

Composer during the Ars Nova movement, wrote the Notre Dame Mass

Guillaume de Machaut

300

What years were the middle ages?

450-1450

300

Guillaume de Machaut placed the original Gregorian Chant in his tenor voice during the Ars Nova movement.  What is this chant now called?

Cantus Firmus?

300

Catholic Church’s response to Luther's growing popularity

Council of Trent or Protestant Reformation

300

Long group of notes sung to one syllable of text, making the text difficult to understand

Melisma

300

This composer used word painting to make the text in his music more clear, because the text at this time was difficult to understand due to the Latin text and long melismas.

Josquin Desprez

400

These traveling singer-songwriters accompanied themselves with instruments and wrote secular music

Troubadours 

400

Leonin and Perotin wrote polyphonic music based on Gregorian Chant.  What is this music called?

Organum

400

This invention greatly increased the amount of notated music

Printing Press

400

Piece for several voices set to a short poem, usually about love

Madrigal

400

This composer eliminated long melismas and Latin text in his music, protesting the lavishness of Catholic Art

Martin Luther

500
These were medieval street musicians.  They were peasants

Minstrels

500

A continuous note that was played underneath the melody in organum

Drone

500

This class became more educated during the Renaissance Era, causing music to become more secular

Nobility

500

Instrumental song during the Renaissance Period.  John Dowland wrote these

Lute Song

500

A composer of the Counter Reformation, wrote in Latin text, but used a more restrained polyphony

Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina