Middle Ages
This musical style has been the official music of the Catholic church for over 1,000 years.
What is Gregorian Chant?
The highest voice in the vocal classification system.
What is Soprano?
The playing of two notes at once on a violin or similar bowed instrument.
What is a Double Stop?
Instruments that are played with a bow, or plucked.
What are the Strings?
Poet composers from the country of France.
What/Who are Troubadours and Trouveres?
These individuals were entertainers of the middle ages, and news bearers for their respective countries.
What/Who are Minstrels?
The seventh degree in the int Sol-Fa Singing system?
What is Ti?
A rapid, slight variation in pitch in singing or playing some musical instruments, producing a stronger or richer tone.
What is Vibrato?
These Instruments are played by vibrating the air through the buzzing of a metal mouth piece.
What is the Brass family?
A form of instrumental dance.
What is Estampie?
Kyrie, Agnus Dei, and Sanctus are all part of what religious service?
What is the Mass Ordinary?
A range of tones in the human voice produced by a particular vibratory pattern of the vocal folds.
What is a Vocal Register?
A wavering effect in a musical tone, typically produced by rapid reiteration of a note, or sometimes by rapid repeated variation in the pitch of a note or by sounding two notes of slightly different pitches to produce prominent overtones.
What is a Tremolo?
This component is used to vibrate the air in a series of instruments and is often made of cane.
What is a reed?
An Italian poetic and musical form in use from the late 13th to the 15th century. It has the musical structure AbbaA, with the first and last stanzas having the same texts
What is Ballata?
New art
What is Ars Nova?
A musical or vocal sound with reference to its pitch, quality, and strength.
What is Tone?
Deaden, muffle, or soften the sound of.
What is a Mute
The component of a a brass instrument that when pressed changes the shape of the tubing.
What is a Valve?
A thirteen-line poem, divided into three stanzas of 5, 3, and 5 lines, with only two rhymes throughout and with the opening words of the first line used as a refrain at the end of the second and third stanzas.
What is a Rondeau?
Dorian, Phrygian, Aeolian are all names for what?
What are the Church Modes?
A series of eight notes occupying the interval between (and including) two notes, one having twice or half the frequency of vibration of the other.
What is an Octave?
Emphasize
What is Accent?
The component of this instrument that is an extension of the player that is using it.
What is a mallet?
A form of early polyphony based on an existing plainsong?
What is Organum?