Composers
This pope developed plainchant that was used in the Catholic Church services.
Who is Pope Gregory I?
This is the total number of years of the Middle Ages.
What is 1000 (450-1450)?
The earliest texture of the Gregorian chant with only 1 sung line.
What is monophonic?
This architectural style was "earthy" with thick, heavy walls with towers.
What is Romanesque?
What are monks?
Known for being an influential religious leader, artist, poet, scientist, and musician in the Middle Ages.
Who is Hidegard of Bingen?
The three social divisions of the era.
What is clergy, peasantry, nobility.
The earliest names for a note.
What is a neume?
This architectural style was complex with tall spires, rose windows, and flying buttresses.
What is Gothic?
These individuals devoted their life to service in the church and lived in convents on church property.
Who were nuns?
The French composer that emerged as the most important poet and composer of his century.
Who is Guillaume de Machaut?
This class was the primary source who monopolized on education.
Who are clergy?
The earliest music of Catholic Christianity that was most often sung in worship.
What is chant?
These statues were believed to have come to life at night to keep bad spirits away.
What are gargoyles?
If you had no hereditary connection to the Catholic Church, being placed here might have been an avenue for your inclusion of the church.
What is an orphanage?
Many composers were given this "generic" name as most go unknown.
Who is anonymous?
Traveling sing-songwriters who accompanied themselves with instruments and wrote secular music.
What are troubadours?
The most important service of the medieval Catholic worship.
What is mass?
Multiple pitches sung to one syllable of text.
What is a melisma?
The only kind of music you would sing IN the Catholic Church.
What is sacred?
This composer was nicknamed "School of Notre Dame" as he and Perotin added multiple lines of music introducing organum.
Who is Leonin?
This is the artistic capital toward the middle of the Middle Ages.
What is Paris, France?
The 5 sung prayers of the mass oridnary
What is Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus & Agnus Dei?
Generations were always trying to achieve and be like this former dynasty.
Who is Rome?
This song may have been sung at a funeral
What is "Dies Irae"?