Sacred Music Vocabulary
Secular Music Vocabulary
Famous People of the Middle Ages
Elements of Notation
Famous Places of the Middle Ages
100
Having to do with the church
What is sacred?
100
Not of the church
What is secular?
100
This person reorganized the Catholic liturgy, including its music
Pope Gregory I
100
What are clefs?
100
Became the center of musical development after 1150
What is France?
200
Another name for the Bible
What is Scripture?
200
French poet-composers who were active in noble courts and villages
What are troubadours?
200
This German nun was the first woman composer from whom musical works have survived.
Who is Hilda Von Bingen?
200
This type of note receives 4 beats
What is a whole note?
200
The capitol of France
What is Paris?
300
With no instruments
What is a cappella?
300
How secular music was mainly passed on due to the illiteracy of the general population
What is aurally?
300
A French composer who wrote both secular and sacred music; his catalog is one of the largest surviving collections from the Middle Ages.
Who is G. de Machaut?
300
Every syllable gets one pitch.
What is syllabic?
300
singing school that trained men and boys
What is a schola cantorum?
400
A vast empire that began in Rome, Italy and eventually included France, Spain, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, parts of Northern Africa, England and Romania
What is the Roman Empire?
400
Secular music was usually sung in this
What are local languages?
400
One of two French choirmasters who were from the School of Notre Dame
Who is Leonin?
400
A single syllable is sung over many pitches
What is melismatic?
400
The place where a series of wars were started by European Christians in order to take it from the Muslims
What is Jerusalem?
500
A form of medieval church music that involves chanting words sung with no instrumental accompaniment
What is plainchant?
500
monks in monasteries began experimenting with adding this to chants between 700-900 AD
What is harmony?
500
These people were the leaders of the local church
What are clergy?
500
The first written harmony moved in this fashion at the interval of a fourth or fifth
What is parallel motion?
500
Famous university in Paris where most of the secular music in the Middle Ages was composed
What is the University of Notre Dame?