Historical and Cultural Events
In 450, the ________ fell, followed by a time of great upheaval, migration, and conflict.
What is Roman Empire?
Its function was not to be entertaining but to act as a vessel for delivering ______.
What is scripture?
Combined with spoken text, chants for the Catholic worship service.
What is Mass?
Uses ___ lines, instead of the 5 we know today.
What is Four?
poet-composers active in noble courts and villages in Northern France.
What are Troubadours?
Churches, cathedrals, and monasteries were built, and ____ developed around them.
_____, who was pope from 590 to 604, reorganized the Catholic liturgy, including its music, to create unity.
Who is Pope Gregory?
A school where boys were taught to read and perform the chants for worship.
What is Schola Cantorum?
The pitch symbols, called ____ are read from left to right and bottom to top.
What are Neumes?
Poet-composers active in noble courts and villages in Southern France.
What are Trouveres?
From 1096 to 1291, ______, a series of wars undertaken by European Christians, were fought to regain the holy city of Jerusalem.
What are The Crusades?
It is sung _____ (without instruments.)
What is acapella?
What is Liber Usualis?
_____ mark the tonic pitch of the piece.
What are Clefs?
Songs were sung in _____.
What are Local Languages?
In 1350, the Bubonic Plague, also known as _____, swept through Europe, killing one-fourth of its population.
What is The Black Death?
A soloist alternates with a choir.
What is Responsorial?
Although there are no measures, barlines mark the ends of ________.
What are Phrases?
Topics of Troubador Songs (Name at least two)
What are Courtly Love, Unrequited Love, Political Satire, The Crusades, and Dance?
By the end of the middle ages, the Catholic Church had begun to splinter, with two ________ claiming authority.
What are Rival Popes?
The choir is sectioned into two equal alternating groups.
What is Antiphonal?
In responsorial and antiphonal chants, an asterisks marks the _______.
What is Change of Voices?