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eight scales prevalent in medieval music based on whole steps and half steps. Each mode has its own unique arrangement. If you find the formula, you can build a mode beginning on any note.
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Main service of the church. Included two parts: Ordinary and Proper. Ordinary (set texts) includes: kyrie, gloria, credo, sanctus, angus dei. Proper (changing text) includes: alleluia, gradual, offertory,
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The Roman Dialect of Chant. Set neumatically and melismatically. Would have been responsorial.
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Most things that were secular, popular, or entertaining were suppressed by the church. Resulted in Plainchant.
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The Fall of Rome, and the Start of the Medieval Era. Slow changes in life culture and dissemination of knowledge. Music came from "god".
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Latin Text, modal music, a capella. Melodies declaimed the words, while phrases and periods corresponded with texts.
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Music theorist; is credited with "inventing" the staff. Suggested using the red line for F and a yellow line for C. -
Priest, poet, and composer (we believe). -
Founder and abbess of the convent at Rupertsberg, Germany. Famous for her prophetic powers and revelations.Wrote liturgical dramas and religious poetry. -
a bowed string instrument of European medieval and early renaissance music. Developed around the 11th century. -
Famous troubadour; perhaps the finest of the troubadour poets; very important musically since his music survives than any other 19th century poet. -
Master of Organum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris. -
Famous female troubadour; she has left us the only surviving melody by a female troubadour. -
Master of discant organum at the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris; supposed student of Leonin. Wrote 3 and 4-voice organum. -
Trouvere; wrote in several genres and forms; monk at Arras -
a royal charter of rights agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede
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One of the last trouveres; wrote polyphony; studied in Paris. -
Known as the "inventor of new art," french composer, poet, theorist and bishop; established a new tradition of mensural notation. -
The first wearable glasses known to history appeared in Italy during the 13th century. This invention improved the quality of life for the visually impaired. -
New art; new rhythmic polyphony in the motets
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A devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia.
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English, but influenced musical style in Europe. More 3rds and 6th were used in the harmonies, known as triadic music. -
Renaissance= rebirth. Formed new complex currents of thought concerning: arts, science, and religion.
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Composer and music theorist: wrote about contemporary music. Wrote the first dictionary of musical terms: Diffinitorum musices (c.1475) -
Prolific German composer; court composer to Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I in Vienna. -
Made important contributions to large- scale forms and their unity; Dutch; important composer of masses in Europe. -
First music printer and publisher; preserved Renaissance music for us today -
German theologian and composer; he was the founder of the Lutheran Church -
Complex, continuous polyphony; strong. -
Used in the 14th and 17th century in Europe, is a wooden instrument with a cylinder bore. The crumhorn is the earliest and most common instrument of the reed cap family. -
English composer who wrote a 40- voice part motet. -
Most prolific composer of the Renaissance; At the Viennese and Prague courts; religious; mixed polyphony and homophony. -
The most famous composer from the Renaissance. Roman style; responded to the requests of the Council of Trent to reform Catholic church music. Mostly contrapuntal liturgical music. -
English; Catholic composer writing both Protestant and Catholic music in England; greatest English composer of his time. -
English playwright and poet; he has been an important force in the field of music from his day to ours. -
Ahead of his time; took music into a new style (seconda pratica vs the older, prima pratica). -
The first modern flush toilet was described by Sir John Harington, an English courtier and the godson of Queen Elizabeth
