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Around the year 600, Pope _____________________ the Great attempted to organize the various chants that had spread throughout.
GREGORY
Between 1100 and 1300, some ________________ nobleman started a trend, writing poems about courtly love and setting them to music.
FRENCH
Who was the most significant composer of this time?
Guillaume de Machaut
Flemish composer,Josquin des Pres was consider the greatest __________________ of all.
COMPOSER
Claudio __________________, a leading Italian comoser who excelled at the madrigal, built on it's close relationship between music and text.
Moneverdi
Parallel melodies were a step toward ________________________ which is is the combining of two or more musical lines.
POLYPHONY
These _________________ travelded throughout the country singing and playing their pieces.
TROUBADOURS
In England, John ___________________ emphasized harmony based n 3rd and 6th intervals that sounded very different from the 4th and 5th commonly used.
Dunstable
Josquin's music was published widely and known throughout _____________________.
EUROPE
John Calvin, another PRotestant, eiminated all musc from worship ce for the unacomanied singing of _________________ text.
BIBLICAL
Around 100 A.D. early Christians startd practicing a form of chanting adapted from their Jewish heritage called ________________________.
PLAINCHANT
By the 14th century, troubadours were also popular in German speaking cuntries where they were called _________________________
MINNESINGERS
The tendency of a musical composition to gravitae to one particular note.
TONALITY
Josquin was a master of imitative counterpoint, a characteristic of ________________ polyphony.
RENAISSANCE
Music became an issue as art of the reform movemnt within the _________________ church.
CATHOLIC
The church beieved that music should make the participant or listner receptive to ____________ ____________ and ________________.
HOLY THOUGHTS and FEELINGS
What instruments were used in the Middle Ages _______________ and ________________
DRUMS and BAGPIPES
When a piece of music arrives at the tonic the listner feels a sense of resolution or _________________.
COMPLETION
During the Renaissance, _______________ music became more distinctly national.
SECULAR
What types of keyboard instruments were used during this period?
HARPSICHORD, CLAVICHORD AND ORGAN
What are symbols used to indicate the rise and fall in pitch and the division of symbols?
NEUMES
Artists of this time often portrayed music as a gift from ______________________.
HEAVEN
IF the pull is weak, the sound is ________________
UNCERTAIN
Madrigals were great fun for whom ________________.
SINGERS