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The monophonic, non-metric, sacred genre of music that was created for the Catholic church and used the 8 church modes.
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The fall of Rome occurred and people began to view music as divine (came from God) and cosmic (created with the movement of planets and stars).
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A form of plainchant, this is the Roman dialect of chant that is unaccompanied and set neumatically from the Roman Catholic Church.
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Musical texture where two or more lines of music play simultaneous lines of independent melody. (School of Notre Dame)
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(991-1033) Italian music theorist credited with inventing the staff and contributed to diastematic notation.
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(1098-1179) Was the first female composer of her time to receive extensive scholarly research. Her music was very elaborate and went beyond the common Gregorian Chant
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Created by composers to help notate rhythm using combinations of single neumes and neume groups.
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(1150-1210) First known composer of polyphonic music.
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Mainly improvised and used for dancing. Consisted of harps, recorders, lutes, lyres, vielles, crumhorns, organs, etc.
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A new genre that was more text than chant and utilized 6 rhythmic modes.
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(1291-1361) First composer of the Ars Nova (New art of notes).
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(1300-1377) Most famous composer of the Medieval time period and used one of the first polyphonic mass cycles. He also added dissonances on cadences.
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(1325-1397) Most famous Italian composer, well known because he was blind.
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(1397-1474) First Renaissance composer.
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Period of complex thoughts involving art, science, and religion.
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(1435-1511) A composer and theorist who wrote the first dictionary of musical terms and announced a rebirth in the art of music.
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(1450-1521) Composed over 100 motets and 17 masses, heavily utilizing homorhythms in his compositions.
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Chants were paraphrased, melodies often placed in top voice, voice parts switch from 4 to 5-8, and rhythms lose complexity.
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Dynamic markings were first introduced in lute literature.
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A rise in music and subgenres, like frotollas, chansons, and madrigals.
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(1505-1585) Wrote 40-voice part motet entitled "Spem in alium"
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(1525-1594) Most famous composer from the Renaissance. Known for counterpoint style and using polyphony when church desired homorhythmic music.
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Madrigals become known as a modern genre as masses were controlled by cantus firmus.
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New musical guidelines set for musicians. Words needed to be clearly understood, secular things gone from church, and musicians had to act in a reverent manner.
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(1557-1612) A leading composer of polychoral works and instrumental ensemble music.