People
The majority of the people-lived miserably in single-roomed huts, poor lifestyle
Peasants
The broad term for religious music performed during the medieval times
Sacred music
This texture involves "many sounds" and was usually improvised at the beginning which surprised listeners at the time
polyphonic texture
The amount of voices you would typically find in organum quadruplum
four
Black Death
These people were considered "wandering/traveling musicians" performing in festivals, banquets, and more; in the lowest level of society
Minstrels
This place had a central role in daily life and musical life in the Medieval Period (be specific)
Catholic Church
This type of oragnum is when both notes in the interval move in the same direction
parallel organum
This musical texture was the most common for chants in the medieval times
monophonic texture
This event killed most of the crop and cattle resulting in fatality for some of the population of Europe due to starvation, cannabalism, etc.
Famine
The person often credited with the creation of the name "Gregorian Chant", though accuracy of this is debatable
Pope Gregory I
During the medieval period, this was frowned upon in church service and musical worship
Instruments
This type of secular, dance-like tune with instrumentation and no vocals
estampie
A characteristic of sacred music that differs from secular
texture, purpose, contrast, etc. (instructor's decision)
The main period of the Middle Ages that lasted from 1300-1400 with many social upheavals going on such as wars, sickness, religious conflict, etc.
Late Middle Ages
These poets and musicians flourished in Southern France with their romantic and chivalrous song traditions
troubadours
________ were not allowed to sing in church during the medieval times as societal norms restricted them from that role as well as other theological interpretations or views on church singing as clerical duties
Women
This is a medieval monophonic song, often religious, characteristic of Galacian-Portuguese lyrics
Cantiga
Name a language secular music was composed in during the medieval period
Latin, English
Name a war that took place during the Middle Ages
Crusades, War of the Roses, Hundred Year War
This benedictine monk and music theorist invented staff notation and solfege, the method that taught singers and commonfolk how to read music quicker
Guido d' Arezzo
This building was the birthplace of Gregorian Chants, often also being a center for learning and worship
Monastery
This term involved doubling a Gregorian Chant at a higher or lower pitch
Organum
The trouveres wrote music tied to specifically this...
culture of the Northern French Courts
The name for the split within the Roman Catholic Church that began in the late Middle Ages
Western Schism