Timeline
History
Listening
Vocabulary
Composers
100

The years of the Medieval Period.

What is 450-1400 (or 1450)?

100

The place where Gregorian Chant was sung?

What is The Church?

100

The texture of De Spiritu Sancto.

What is monophonic?

100

The definition of Gregorian Chant?

What is a sacred monophonic plainchant?

100

The most important female composer of the Medieval Era.

Who is Hildegard von Bingen?

200

The years of the Renaissance Period.

What is 1400-1600?

200

The two types of music categories in the Medieval and Renaissance Eras.

What is sacred and secular?

200

The type of music/genre of Tu solus qui facis mirabilia.

What is a Motet?

200

The definition of Jongleurs.

What is nomadic tricksters that performed songs and begged for money (jesters)?

200

The people who wrote down music in the church.

Who are monks and nuns?

300
Two of the earliest instruments used by humans.

What is the voice and drums?

300

The definition of 'Renaissance'?

What is Re-birth?

300

The rhythm of Fair Phyllis. 

What is syncopated?

300

The definition of Troubadour.

What is a poet composer?

300

The greatest English composer of the Renaissance.

Who is Palestrina?

400

The entity that controlled the music of the Medieval Era.

What is the Roman Catholic Church?
400

The language and text used in Gregorian Chant and masses. 

What is Latin and Biblical text?

400

The two main instruments in Susato's Mille regretz.

What is the recorder and lute?

400

The definition of Motet and Madrigal.

What is a sacred vocal composition and a secular vocal composition often about love?

400

The difference between Medieval and Renaissance composers.

What is Medieval composers only wrote in the church and Renaissance composers were plentiful and spread out through Europe?

500

The three types of texture that we have discussed during listening.

What is polyphonic, homophonic, and monophonic?

500

The importance of the Gutenberg Press. 

What is the mass production and distribution of music?

500

The texture of Missa Se la face ay pale by DuFay.

What is polyphonic?

500

The definition of Polyphonic, Homophonic, and Monophonic.

What is multiple melodies at the same time, all parts have the same rhythm and text (has harmony), and one melody/voice (no harmony)?

500

Three composers of the Renaissance Era.

Who are Monteverdi, Palestrina, Josquin de Prez, William Byrd, Gesualdo, Thomas Morley, John Dowland, Luis de Victoria, DuFay?