Music
Sacred music with two vocal parts that frequently uses a drone.
Organum
Name two defining characteristic of early medieval art.
Bright colors, Christian subject matter, Iconography, Elaborate patterns and decoration
One main characteristics of classical influence on medieval architecture.
arches
Writer of The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
When was the medieval period?
500-1450 A.D.
Gregorian chants were sung using this texture
monophonic
Early medieval art combined elements from which two cultures with Christian subject matter and decorative patterns from the pagan North.
Greek and Roman
A tall section on the western facade of a church
westwork
Which adjective would best describe a medieval romance writer's style of language?
lofty
What type of journey impacted churches starting to competing to attract people, using art to indicate status and the possession of relics.
Pilgrimage
Musicians and poets who sang about chivalry, courtly love, and travel.
troubadours
Hand-lettered copies of the gospels and other books of the bible that were written on parchment made from animal skins using a combination of ink and paint
Illuminated manuscripts
Much of what we know about this type of Gothic architecture was documented in the writings of a German monk, conveyed religious stories through images, and could be long and narrow or large and round, like rose or wheel.
Stained Glass Windows
Courtly love is also called what?
Refined love
Name 2 Medieval composers.
Hildegard von Bingen, Leonin, Perotin, Guillaume de Machaut
What are 2 subjects that troubadours sang about?
Unrequited (courtly) love and battle
Name two items that used early medieval metalwork.
Chalices, Book covers, Battle helmets, Jewelry
Stonework that supported segments of windows
Tracery
The event or state of affairs most significantly affected the late medieval society portrayed in The Canterbury Tales
When making stained glass, what was added to the molten glass to create colors?
Powdered minerals like cobalt and gold
Two main categories of music during this time.
Sacred and Secular
How did art help churches fulfill their basic purposes?
Art helped an illiterate population learn Biblical stories.
Architecture in late medieval period is usually referred to as this style.
Gothic
Name one cycles of medieval romance literature
Matter of Brittain, Matter of France, Matter of Rome
Why did medieval church music have such specific rules?
To ensure that no chanted music would bring the condemnation of God.