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After the year 600, which Pope attmpted to organize the various chants that sread throughout?
POPE GREGORY THE GREAT
As early as the 10th century when religious or sacred music began to be preserved, who danced, played and sang their own songs in the courts and on the streets?
JONGLEURS
The 14th century was an experimental period where ______________ music overtook ______________ music in importance.
SECULAR/SACRED
Renaissance composers throughout Europe strove for a new ideal in sound. The ideal was represented by a chorus divided into four equally important voice parts: _____________, _____________, ______________ and ______________.
SOPRANO, ALTO, TENOR and BASS
Who was the leading Italian composer who excelled at the madrigal?
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
What is the combining of two or more musical lines?
POLYPHONY
French nobleman started a trend of writing poems about courty love and setting them to music. These ________________ traveled throughout the country singing and playing their pieces.
TROUBADOURS
Toward the end of the 14th century, musicians were becoming more interested in the ______________ aspect of their art than the _____________ aspect of structure.
SENSUOUS/TECHNICAL
What became the chief musical form during this time?
The LATIN MASS
One Protestant, Martin Luther, was a musician himself. One of Luther's most famous chorales is still widely sung, "A Mighty Fortress is Our ____________."
GOD
What is the name of Pope Gregory's chants?
GREGORIAN CHANT
Singers of love songs were called?
MINNESINGERS
What is the tendency of a musical composition to gravitate to one particular note?
TONALITY
While Flemish composers were refining their style, a cultural revolution was taking place in Italy. What was this new philosophy called?
HUMMANISM
As religious choral music was reaching its peak around 1550, what styles were beginning to take shape?
INSTRUMENTAL
Around 100 A.D., early Christians started practicing a form of chanting adapted from their Jewish heritage called _________________.
PLAINCHANT
Minnesingers were depicted at school where they learned rules of _________________ and _______________.
COMPOSITION and PERFORMANCE
When a piece of music arrives at the tonic, the listner feels a sense of resolution or _______________.
COMPLETION
What development simplified music publication?
PRINTING
Mixed groups of instruments played together paving the way for modern ______________.
ORCHESTRATION
The church believed that music should make he listner open to holy thoughts and feelings. Because words were needed for this purpose, what type of music was prohibited?
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
Artists ofthe Middle Ages ofen portrayed music as a gift from _________________.
HEAVEN
Late in the 15th century, the focus was now on what type of music?
CHORAL
Who were Madrigals great fun for?
SINGERS
What was the most popular household instrument during this time?
LUTE