Sacred Medieval Music
The music that monks in the monastery sang.
Gregorian chant
These were the traveling musicians who wrote the secular music of the Middle Ages.
Most music of the Renaissance, both sacred and secular, is this musical texture.
Polyphonic
This was the most popular instrument of the Renaissance.
Lute
A Gregorian chant like this uses this kind of texture.
Monophonic
This "School", led by Perotin and Leonin, developed the first system of measured rhythm in Europe.
Most music of the Middle Ages, secular or sacred, had this kind of texture.
Monophonic
The Catholic worship service whose 5 parts are Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
Mass
Secular music of the Renaissance was usually intended for this type of physical activity.
Dancing
An estampie like this is not a vocal song, instead it is this kind of song.
Instrumental.
Adding additional melodic lines to a Gregorian chant creates this kind of sacred song.
Organum
These were often the performers of secular Medieval music, who were not treated well in society and were often trusted sources of information.
Minstrels/jongleurs
This is a short, polyphonic, choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than the ordinary of the mass.
Motet
This was the musical center of the Renaissance.
Italy
This Renaissance mass has many different melodies being sung at once, meaning it has this kind of texture.
Polyphonic
This is the long sustained note that is often sung in the chant, not the small flying device that we know today.
Drone
This style of "new art" was the music of Italy and France in the 1400s that encouraged composers to try new rhythms and use syncopation.
Ars nova
When one voice/instrument plays a melody and another voice/instrument repeats the melody, you have this copycat musical technique.
Imitation
This invention helped make music more accessible to educated people in the Renaissance, and led to a "cultural rebirth".
Printing press
When the lyrics of a song represent what's happening in the music, such as in this madrigal here, it's called this.
Word painting
This woman was a nun and one of the earliest known composers of sacred music in the Middle Ages.
Hildegard of Bingen
He was one of the most celebrated French composers of the 1400s, who at the age of 60 wrote many songs about a 19 year old woman.
Guillaume de Machaut
This "School" was the bridge between Renaissance and Baroque music, using polyphony, instruments, and multiple choirs in sacred music.
The Venetian School
This Italian song style is a piece for several solo voices set to a short poem about love, and it became popular in England.
Madrigal
A lute song is not just vocal or instrumental. A lute song is a vocal song with an instrumental this (Hint: the answer starts with the letter "A")
Accompaniment