Musical Terms
Instruments
Instruments 2
Genres
Genres 2
100
Having only one part with only one part or line
What is Monophony?
100
Popular due to portability, played with a bow or plucked with hand, hend under the chin/in crook of arm, popular and common to find being played on the street, vast variety of types of this instrument
What is a fiddle?
100
Used mostly by poorer people, made of goat/sheep skin, included a reed pipe, chiefly used in the Highlands of Scotland, used several pipes to output sound
What is a bagpipe?
100
Music from 1300-1400 was called ___ Medieval Music
What is late?
100
Most common nationality of a musician or composer
What is France/French?
200
Having several parts, such as a melody and background or two melodies
What is Polyphony?
200
Evolved from other instruments, high-pitched, woodwind, penetrating spiritual quality of tone, similar to clarinet, thin and double-reed
What is an oboe?
200
Thin, round, and concave metal plates were used as
What are cymbals?
200
Music from 1150-1300 was called ___ Medieval Music
What is High/Early?
200
Musicians and Composers wrote their music to accompany most likely _____.
What are poems?
300
Describing an instrument that was relatively quiet
What is Bas?
300
Instrument that was the first basis for the invention of the Oboe, a single-reed instrument with vent holes
What is a Shawm?
300
Evolved version of a previous instrument, later being changed into an oboe, double-reed woodwind instrument with a conical bore
What is a Hautboy?
300
The most popular type/use of instrumental music
What is dance music?
300
The country that created the Gleisserlieder genre, where music was written to appease the wrath of angry gods
What is Germany?
400
Describing an instrument that was very loud
What is Haut?
400
Name for percussion drums made from hollow tree trunks, molded clay, or metal, covered by skins of water animals
What are tambours?
400
String instrument that had a crank wheel moved by a handle, sound produced via friction by the wheel, also known as the barrel organ, grind organ, hand organ, or street organ
What is a hurdy-gurdy?
400
Country that created the cantalina style, which was sung by one or two high voices
What is Italy?
400
Type of very popular French music written very often to accompany poetry
What is chanson?
500
Describing where two performers sung the same tune, one singing slightly higher or lower
What is Heterophony?
500
Type of brass instrument containing many curves and a very odd S shape
What is a lizard/serpent horn?
500
Type of String instrument, very long and thin, played by striking the strings with small hammers
What is a dulcimer?
500
Most religious music was written in the format of ______ chant?
What is Gregorian?
500
_____ wrote most of the religious music (type of person)
What are monks?