Ancient and Medieval Music
This terms encapsulates all the elements of a worship service.
What is the Liturgy?
This kind of Mass was written for the local parishes in Germany.
This large, sacred, musical drama utilized, choirs, soloists, instruments, and often narrators.
What is an Oratorio?
This Franco-Flemish composer was generally known as the greatest in his time and was one of the first to set the Mass Ordinary to music as a Cyclic Mass.
Who is Guillaume Du Fay?
The name of the eight daily prayer services of the medieval church.
This musical genre was a love poem set to two voices.
What is a Madrigal?
A piece for 1-2 solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra or chamber strings.
What is an instrumental concerto?
This German Reformer saw music as the second most important thing in the church behind the Word of God.
Who is Martin Luther?
This secular musical drama utilized singers, instruments, costumes, and set design, all with the purpose of capturing human emotion through music.
What is an Opera?
This piece of music was for 2-4 voices and set to a rhymed, metrical, and strophed poem.
What is a conductus?
This type of composition grew from a text and tune into a polyphonic work.
What is a Chorale?
An Ensemble with instruments from the same family.
What is a Consort?
This Franco-Flemish Composer was one of the first to use the imitation compositional technique, which would lead to his music being emulated for many decades after his death.
Who is Josquin Des Prez?
This is the name of the fourth voice in a polyphonic piece of music
What is the Quadruplum?
Means "Equal Rhythm"
What is Isorhythmic?
This was a melody that was used in 15th century masses to signal that it was part of the Mass Ordinary.
Head Motive
What is a Fugue?
He was the first composer that really ushered in the Baroque style through his use of Chromaticism and expressing the feeling of the text through the music.
Who is Claudio Monteverdi?
What are agréments?
The term for a the division of a semi-breve.
What is a Prolation?
These two types of music were similar in structure, but one was used for entertainment, while the other was used in a more religious setting.
What are Frottolas and Laudes?
This was the chief way that Baroque performers affected the emotions of the the listeners
What is ornamentation?
These two French composers revolutionized the Organum and motet musical genres.
Who are Leonin and Perotin?
This kind of Mass uses a melody from a secular work as its Cantus Firmus.