vernacular genres
chant genres
general context (and other things)
music theory
notation
100

these Occitan-speaking poet-musicians are "linked by a connection with the ethos of fin' amors

who are troubadours?

100

this simple chant is sung before and after hymns

what is an antiphon?

100

the cultural "code" of courtly love

what is the fin' amors?

100

the syllable guido of arezzo would have used in place of do

what is ut?

100

neumes indicate this

what is melodic gesture?

200

carefully copied manuscripts of troubadour songs

what are chansonniers?

200

the ____ of the mass includes greatest hits such as the kyrie, gloria, credo and more!

what is the ordinary?

200

this early 13th c. collection of poems included a gambler's mass

what is the carmina burana?

200

a musical form where all verses are sung to the same music

what is strophic form?

200

each neume represents this many syllables of text

what is one?

300

the only trobairitz song with a surviving melody

what is "a chantar" nawm 9?

300

antiphonal chants have two sections of a choir alternate, while this type of chant has alternation between a choir and a soloist

what is responsorial chant?

300

the military campaigns undertaken by Western Christians

what are the crusades?

300

the four-line f and c clefs are attributed to this person

who is guido of arezzo?

300

through time, these type of neumes appeared that represented relative pitch and contour

what are heightened numes?

400

chanson, aube, pastourelle, ballade, and rondeau are all subgenres of this vernacular genre

what is the trouvere tradition?

400

melismatic text-setting indicates this many neumes plus per syllable

what is 4+?

400

the kingdom of France had this specific type of government (looking for three words)

what is a decentralized feudal monarchy?

400

a mode is thought to be this if its ambitus is a fourth below its final to a fifth above

what is plagal?

400

square noteheads were the invention of a group of people who lived here in the late 19th c.

where is solesmes france?

500

robins m'aime is an example of this genre

what is a pastourelle?

500

mark famously made a flop joke about the liturgical "sext" service that takes place at this day and time

what is noon on christmas day?

500

this musically gifted German composer is documented as the first person to combine the spices we think of as pumpkin spice

who is hildegard von bingen?

500

this collection of 6 notes is the basis for solmization (not looking for pitches but what a collection of 6 notes is)

what is a hexachord?

500

neumes likely derived from these signs for vocal inflections and accents in speech

what are diacritics?