Medieval Music
This type of monophonic chant was widely used in Medieval churches.
What is Gregorian Chant?
The Renaissance period roughly spanned these two centuries.
What are the 15th and 16th centuries?
This ancestor of the modern violin was used in both the Medieval and Renaissance periods.
What is the viol?
Music intended for church or religious services is called this.
What is sacred music?
This is the main musical form used in Medieval church services.
What is the mass?
Medieval music often used modes rather than this modern system.
What is the major/minor scale system?
This texture, where multiple independent melodies are sung at the same time, was common in Renaissance choral music.
What is Polyphony?
A common keyboard instrument of the Renaissance that plucked strings rather than striking them.
What is the harpsichord?
Non-religious music is known by this term.
What is Secular Music?
This type of Renaissance composition set a short religious text to music, not part of the Mass.
What is a motet?
This group of traveling musicians entertained with songs and poems
Who were troubadours or trouvères?
This composer is considered the master of Renaissance sacred music, especially known for his masses and motets.
Who is Palestrina?
This portable keyboard instrument used bellows to create sound.
What is the portative organ?
The Mass and the Motet are examples of this type of music.
What is sacred music?
This musical technique uses music to reflect the meaning of the words (e.g., high notes for “heaven”).
What is word painting?
The earliest form of written music used these marks to indicate pitch.
What are Neumes?
The invention of this device helped spread music and ideas during the Renaissance.
What is the printing press?
This early brass instrument is considered a predecessor to the modern trombone.
What is the sackbut?
Renaissance dances like the pavane and galliard fall under this category.
What is secular music?
Renaissance composers often wrote in this texture, meaning a single melody with accompaniment was becoming more common.
This French composer of the 14th century wrote both sacred and secular music and is known for the "Messe de Nostre Dame."
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
This style of secular vocal music often included word painting and originated in Italy and England.
What is the madrigal?
The recorder was popular in Renaissance music and differs from this modern instrument often confused with it.
What is the flute?
This Renaissance composer wrote both sacred and secular works, including "As Vesta Was Descending."
Who is Thomas Weelkes?
This early form of notation developed during the Renaissance allowed rhythm to be more precisely written down.
What is mensural notation?