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This means a "song sung in worship"
What is Hymn?
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This is the the oldest known instrument that is made out of a bear’s femur. It is estimated to be from about 40,000 BCE.
What is a bone flute?
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Oldest known composer. High priestess who wrote their song to the moon goddess, Nikkal.
Who is Akkadian?
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This is a musical texture with only one melody played or sung at a time.
What is Monophonic?
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The largest mammal in the world
What is the Blue Whale?
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This is what is sung before and after a psalm.
What is the antiphon?
200
A three stringed vielle sounded by rotating a wheel inside the instrument. The player presses levers to change pitch.
What is the Hurdy-gurdy?
200
A German nun, religious thinker, philosopher, visionary and composer who wrote many liturgical songs.
Who is Hildegard von Bingen?
200
Language or dialect spoken by ordinary people in a particular country or origin.
What is vernacular?
200
Stan Lee made his last cameo in this Marvel movie
Avengers: Endgame
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This term describes polyphonic compositions for two or three voice parts
What is a motet?
300
A string instrument with a sound box. Used to worship Apollo.
What is a lyre?
300
This eleventh-century monk was among the first to discuss polyphony and devise a system of six-note patterns for teaching others to sight read. Also known for devising the "Guidonian Hand" as a reference for solfege syllables.
Who is Guido d'Arezzo?
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Both words roughly mean “person who composes a song”. Normally sang songs of unrequited courtly love.
Who is a troubadour or trouvère?
300
This national holiday is celebrated in all countries.
New Year's
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The approximately 25 prayers that lead to and follow the taking of communion. Consists of the "Ordinary" (5 everyday prayers--Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei) and The "Proper" (20 prayers that are appropriate only for a certain day.
What is mass?
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varied in size, shape, and number of strings.
What is a vielle?
400
First leading figure of the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. Earliest known composer of polyphonic art music and the creator of controlled rhythm and meter
Who is Léonin?
400
Many notes sung on a single syllable of text to put emphasis on that word.
What is melisma?
400
The vanilla flavor comes from this flower.
What is an orchid?
500
A "stomping" Medieval instrumental dance that is usually monophonic
What is an estampie?
500
G shaped horn.
What is a cornu?
500
The most important French composer of the Middle Ages, he wrote in the complex Ars Nova style and composed chansons, motets, and the first complete setting of the Mass Ordinary.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
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This term was applied to the earliest-known notated examples of plainchant set in polyphonic texture-- long-held chant notes in the lowest voice, with faster moving metrical rhythms in the upper voice(s).
What is organum?
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This was Mickey Mouse’s original name.
What was Mortimer Mouse?