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Plainchant to Harmony
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Pope Gregory and Hildegard von Bingen
Sacred and Secular Music
100
People who were sheltered within fortified castles surrounded by moats.
Who are Nobles?
100
Earliest music of the Middle Ages.
What is Plainchant?
100
Period where music was not written down
What is the Medieval Period?
100
Gregorian chant was named after him.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
100
Non-religious music.
What is secular music?
200
People who lived miserably in one-room huts.
Who are peasants?
200
Singing the same thing at the same time.
What is unison?
200
Where a composer who did write their music down usually worked.
What is the Catholic Church?
200
Pope Gregory declared that music must be this.
What is standardized?
200
Traveling musicians.
What are troubadours?
300
People in monasteries held a virtual monopoly on learning
Who are monks?
300
Tunes named after Pope Gregory.
What is Gregorian Chant?
300
What the church could afford to buy so that the composers could write music.
What are the materials?
300
This song is by John Dowland, the English composer.
What is Flow My Tears?
400
Group of people who were not allowed to sing in church.
Who are women?
400
An example of Gregorian chant. (Play Song)
What is Te Deum?
400
The year music notation appeared.
What is the year 900?
400
A German nun who wrote religious poetry set to music.
Who Hildegard von Bingen?
400
Almost all of the music written down was this music, at first.
What is sacred music?
500
People of this time who were anonymous.
What are composers?
500
This song is an example of polyphony. (Play song)
What is Kyrie: Orbis Factor?
500
Music notation didn't show this until a few hundred years later.
What is rhythm?
500
This song, by Hildegard von Bigen resembled Gregorian chant?
What is O Pastor Animarum?
500
These were popular instruments for wandering musicians.
What are drums, harps, recorders, and bagpipes?