Instruments
Composers
Styles of Music
Medieval Vocab
Renaissance Vocab
100

Drum

What is percussion?

100
Leonin and Perotin
What is the Medieval Era?


100

Music written for the church

What is sacred music?

100
When everyone sings the same notes and rhythms

What is unison?

100

Sung without instrumental accompaniment

What is a cappella? 

200

Flute

What is woodwind?

200

William IX

What is the Medieval Era? 

200

Music not written for the church

What is secular music?

200

This word literally means "many sounds"

What is polyphony?

200

A polyphonic, sacred piece of music

What is a motet?

300

Trumpet

What is brass? 

300

Hildegard von Bingen

What is the Medieval Era?

300

The difference between madrigals and motets

What is madrigals are secular, motets are sacred? 

300

Name a type of sacred music written during the Medieval Era

What is chant, Masses, or hymns?

300

A polyphonic, secular vocal piece

What is a madrigal?

400

Lute

What is the string family?



400
Josquin des Prez

What is the Renaissance Era?


400

Name one type of Gregorian Chant

What is direct, antiphonal, or responsorial? 

400

The language used for Gregorian Chant

What is Latin?

400

A secular French song

What is chanson?

500

Dulcimer

What is the string family?

500

Giovanni Palestrina

What is the Renaissance Era?


500

This Italian composer was one of the first people to write an opera

Who is Claudio Monteverdi?

500

Poet-musician

What is a troubador?

500

Italian instrumental music

What is canzon?