Strings
A basic plucked instrument of Ancient Greece had anywhere from four to seven strings.
What is a lyre?
The graduated shape of a brass instrument in which the end that the sound comes out is larger than where it originates.
What is conical?
The all encompassing name for all types of chant, named after a pope of the time.
What is Gregorian Chant?
A type of music that includes words.
What is a song?
The period of music that came after Antiquity and before the Renaissance.
What is the medieval era?
A folk instrument in which strings are stretched over a soundbox. It can have up to 37 accompanying strings and four or five melody strings. It is usually playing by plucking.
What is a zither.
A renaissance brass instruments made out of wood or bone that had a very soothing and warm timbre.
What is a cornett?
A type of chant text setting in which 2-12 notes could be sung under one syllable.
What is neumatic?
The invention that helped spread music around Europe.
What is the printing press?
The pipe on a bagpipe that produces a static, unchanging pitch.
What is a drone?
A member of the lute family, its strings are often tuned in pairs.
What is a mandolin?
A brass instrument in which entire body of the instrument could be made longer or shorter.
The "fixed song" part of organum. Its what all of the other parts were built around.
What is the cantus firmus?
Many voices.
What is polyphony?
The region of France that the troubadors originated.
What is Occitania?
A six-stringed bowed instrument with frets.
What is the viola da gamba?
What is a trumpet?
One voice, also a descriptor of early medieval chant.
What is monophonic.
A skilled and educated performer of the late medieval period that promoted fin amor and courtly love.
What is a troubador?
A wind instrument in which the bottom end is covered by a cap. Hint, it's not funny!
What is a cornamuse?
A popular Medieval instrument of ancient origins that consisted of many strings inside of an open frame.
What is a harp?
What is a sackbut?
A famous medieval composer who specialized in creating chant.
A musician that had several roles including sometimes being a spy. These performers were preferred to be heard and not seen.
What is a minstrel?
An instrument that can be both end-blown and side-blown.
What is a flute?