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Secular
Sacred
Vocabulary
Music
Musical Periods
100

An addition to an existing chant is referred to as a _____.

A trope.

100
Gregorian Chant was named after ________?
Pope Gregory
100
Music that has only one melody line is called_______.
Monophonic
100


The __________ is an instrument that is a predecessor to the guitar.

Lute

100

This musical period means "irregularly shaped," and at first it was used to refer to pearls. 

Baroque

200

What is the name of the group of singers, who primarily sang secular music in Occitan (not Old French).

Troubadours

200

Sequences are sung at which point in the mass?

After the Alleluia

200

When a piece of music contains several stanzas that are all sung to the same melody, they can be described as ______.

strophic.

200

What type of music is the Chanson de geste?

It is a French vernacular song, specifically an epic.

200

If a piece of music is written in 1377, it is part of which musical period?

(late) Medieval

300

The songs of the Trouvéres were preserved in manuscript anthologies called _________.

Chansonniers (meaning songbook).

300
Sacred music consisted of only _________, and later on instruments were added.
voices
300

This voice carries the main melody in Aquitanian polyphony and Notre Dame polyphony.

The tenor (or after 1270, the Cantus firmus). 

300
Ordo Virtutum was used for plays, and it was composed by________.
Hildegard
300

The epitaph of Seikilos belongs in to musical period?

Antiquity (ancient Greek).

400

What secular song is written by Comtessa of Dia?

A Chantar

400

In which year was Hildegard of Bingen born?

1098.

400

Dialogues that were added to the liturgy, that included processions and stylized actions. 

Liturgical drama

400

The earliest types of medieval dance music to be written down were the _______ and the _______.

carole and estampie

400

At the end of which period did one third of Europe parish from the Plague?

Medieval 

500

These modes (by number) share the final E.

Modes 3 and 4. (Phrygian and Mixolydian)

500

He was a famous writer of sequence texts. He was once credited with the invention of the sequence, although we now know he was refining a practice that developed beforehand. There is a full special reading dedicated to him in your textbook.

Notker Balbulus (ca. 840-912).

500

Who warned against the "dangers of music" and worried that music may bring "too much pleasure"?

St. Augustine (354-430).

500

This style of polyphonic music occurs when both parts move at about the same pace, with one to three notes in the upper part for each note of the lower voice.

Discant style

500

In this era, the musical textures of imitative counterpoint and homophony dominate music.

Renaissance