Medieval Society
Church Music
Secular Music
Plainchant Written Elements
Peeps to Know
100
Which gender was allowed to read and write?
The men.
100
What was the name of the plainchant that was the official music of the Roman Catholic Church?
Gregorian Chant
100
What country became the center of musical development after 1150?
France
100
True or false: Plainchant has no meter or sense of beat.
True
100
Who was the pope that medieval church music was named after?
Pope Gregory I
200
What are the three classes of society?
Clergy, nobility, peasantry.
200
What are the pitch symbols used in plainchant notation called?
Neumes
200
Secular music was mainly passed on in this way, due to the illiteracy of the general population.
Aurally passed down.
200
What is this called?
A Clef
200
The name given to French composers active in noble courts and villages.
Troubadours/Trouveres
300
What was the center of everyday life - including the towns and society?
The Roman Catholic Church
300
The name for plainchant where some syllables are sung over many pitches.
Melismatic
300
What is the name of musicians who were an essential source of information and often sang songs composed by troubadours?
Minstrels
300
What are these that mark the end of a phrase?
A barline.
300
A German nun who was the first woman composer.
Hildegard Von Bingen
400
The term used for the standard spoken text and music that made up a worship service.
Liturgy
400
What is it called when a soloist alternates with a choir in a plainchant?
Responsorial plainchant.
400
Most rhythms of the late middle ages were divided by this number, to represent the holy trinity.
Three
400
These asteriks were used in chants to mark what?
The change in voices.
400
A French composer who wrote both secular and sacred music.
Guillaume de Machaut
500
What is the collection of the most frequently used chants in the Catholic liturgy called?
Liber Usualis
500
What is the school where boys were taught to read and perform chants for worship?
Schola Canotrum
500
The first written harmony moved in this fashion at the interval of a fourth or fifth.
Parallel motion
500
Is this music melismatic or syllabic?
Syllabic
500
Who were the choirmasters of Notre Dame that were among the first notable known scholars?
Leonin and Perotin