Basics of Music
Medieval Music
Renaissance Music
Early Instruments
Medieval & Renaissance Composers
100
This clef uses the right hand of the piano, E G B D F on the lines of the staff, and F A C E on the spaces
What is the Treble Clef?
100
This type of Medieval music was named after its creator, Pope Gregory I.
What is Gregorian Chant?
100
This is the musical idea of the repetition of a motive or a fragment in a different voice.
What is melodic imitation?
100
Name this Renaissance instrument:
What is the Tambourine?
100
A French composer famous for pioneering works in the organum style with the major work Magnus Liber being attributed to him.
Who is Leonin?
200
A-B-A, 32-bar song, and Verse-chorus are all examples of...
Musical Form
200
This is the name for various signs written above the Medieval chant texts to indicate direction of pitch movement.
What are Neumes?
200
This is a sacred polyphonic composition, usually sung in Latin without accompaniment (a capella).
What is a Motet?
200
Name this Renaissance instrument:
What is the Hurdy-Gurdy?
200
This composer claimed that the music she wrote came to her when she was in a trance-like state, and she composed monophonic chants for the 12th century Catholic church.
Hildegard Von Bingen
300
Name the four different types of instrument families.
Strings (Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass, etc.)
Brass (Trumpets, Trombones, Euphonium, Tuba, etc.)
Woodwinds (Flute, Clarinet, Saxophone, etc.)
Percussion (Xylophone, Drumset, Timpani, etc.)
300
This type of chant gives one note to each syllable of a word.
What is a syllabic chant?
300
This is the part of the High Mass that is often sung by choir and contains six sections.
What is the Mass Ordinary?
300
Name this Medieval Instrument:
What is the gemshorn?
300
This composer served as a musical example for future composers both in how he treated counterpoint (writing multiple musical lines together) and in the clarity of his sound.
Who is Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina?
400
When rhythm is organized into groups of two beats by stressing (accenting) the first of every other beat.
What is Duple Meter?
400
This type of scale pattern was used to construct plainchant and was derived from church.
What is a mode?
400
These three ideas are the basis of the Renaissance era influence on Western culture.
What is humanism, optimism, and reform?
400
The sackbut is the precursor to this modern instrument.
What is the trombone?
400
This French composer is credited with being a true innovator of the period, pioneering its polyphonic style of choral music.
Who is Josquin des Prez?
500
(This) arrives at points within music where there is an arrival point nearby, such as the end of a phrase or the return of a theme.
What is Tension?
500
Music such as this in Medieval times was performed for the public and nobles at weddings, festivals, or tournaments.
What is secular music?
500
This instrumental music genre in the Renaissance era was generally written for keyboards or for an instrumental ensemble and was modeled after the polyphonic motet.
What is ricercar?
500
The Viol is the precursor to this modern instrument.
The viola or cello.
500
This Italian Renaissance composer composed a number of ceremonial motets for public celebrations.
Who is Guillaume DuFay?