Medieval
The Middle Ages begins in this year
What is 476 AD
The dates for the Renaissance Era
1450-1600
Sacred music was always in this language
Latin
This type of choir piece was usually based on a love poem
madrigal
This Medieval composer, writer, and intellectual was a nun and started her own religious order
Hildegaard von Bingen
Early medieval music was centered around these institutions:
Monasteries & convents
Renaissance means this:
Rebirth
What were not allowed into churches in the Medieval or Renaissance eras?
Instruments
Hearing this tone color makes it easy to identify secular music
Instruments
This Renaissance composer is considered the "Savior of Church Music" because he stopped a ban on polyphony in the church
Palestrina
As religious life became centered in cities, these became the center for sacred music:
Cathedrals
Most Renaissance music is this texture
Polyphonic
An important French cathedral beginning in the late Middle Ages
Notre Dame
The term meaning the language that the people who live there speak
Vernacular
This late medieval composer lived and wrote many motets for the pope in the Vatican
Josquin des Prez
The primary style of music used for the first 500+ years of the Medieval period
Chant
Most Renaissance music is for human voices only, also known as
A cappella
This genre of Renaissance polyphony was composed in addition to Masses for private worship
Motets
This medieval genre of secular music often featured singing and instruments together celebrating a victory or honoring nobility
Carol
This composer, who lived from 1300-1377 is best known for his Messe de Notre Dame, one of the first examples of large-scale polyphony
Guillaume de Machaut
Organum
The belief that people can shape their own world and create things that are good and beautiful
Humanism
These 5 texts are sung at every Catholic service
Ordinary of the Mass
This pair of secular dances were played by only instruments. The first was in duple meter & the second in triple meter.
Pavane & Galliard
Two great composers from the Notre Dame of Paris in the late Middle Ages:
Leoninus & Perotinus