Category 1
These were the three main social classes of the Middle Ages.
What are the peasantry, nobility, and clergy?
This social class made their own instruments.
What is the peasantry?
This social class consisted of kings, queens, and landowners.
What is the nobility?
This social class was usually poor and were subject to many diseases.
Who are the peasantry?
This social class enjoyed listening to music that dealt with the themes of love and heroism.
Who are the nobility?
Most church music was written in this language.
What is Latin?
This type of music was used in the church during the Middle Ages.
What is Gregorian Chant or sacred music?
This was one of the uses of music in the Middle Ages.
What is: to pray, for celebration, to tells stories?
This medieval instrument is the ancestor to the modern day violin.
What is the vielle?
This is one of the main reasons historians do not know exactly what early medieval music sounded like.
What is that music was not written down/notated?
These people were responsible for religious life and learning.
Who are the priests?
The Gregorian Chant is named after this person.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
Peasant folk songs were passed down from generation to generation by this.
What is memory or repetition?
This deadly disease caused the death of millions and caused Europe's labor shortage.
What is the Black Plague?
This group of poet-musicians from southern France wrote and sang songs.
Who are the troubadours?
These were some of the common instruments that peasants would play.
What are drums, flutes, and bagpipes?
What is monophonic?
This instrument produces sound through a rotating wheel turned by a crank that rubs against strings to make a sound.
What is a hurdy gurdy?
This group of people were traveling musicians who played music, told stories, and performed tricks.
Who are the minstrels?
These years marked the time period known as the Middle Ages.
What is 450-1450?
This machine was invented in the 1400s and made it faster and cheaper to print books and other papers.
What is the printing press?
This era was a period when European sailors traveled to new lands around the world.
What is the Age of Exploration?
These symbols were small marks placed above words to show how a melody moved.
What are neumes?
This movement was a way of thinking that focused on the importance of people and their abilities.
What is humanism?
The decline of this social structure led to the growth of the middle class and new ways of og=organizing society.
What is feudalism?