(Music) Secular Music in the Middle Ages

Question 1

a medieval dance that exemplifies the genre of estampie.

Answer 1

“La Quarte Estampie Royal”

Question 2

those not religious in nature

Answer 2

secular music

Question 3

a fast dance in triple meter and one of the few surviving instrumental music of the period

Answer 3

estampie

Question 4

nobles and poet musicians

Answer 4

troubadours (of southern France) and trouveres (of northern France)

Question 5

wandering students and clerics satirizing the church

Answer 5

goliards

Question 6

nomadic entertainers

Answer 6

jongleurs

Question 7

German musicians of the nobility

Answer 7

minnesingers

Question 8

a bowed instrument with five strings and considered to be the ancestor of the violin

Answer 8

vielle

Question 9

a side-blown wood instrument similar to the modern flute but without keys

Answer 9

flute

Question 10

which was often installed in churches as the main instrument for sacred music.

Answer 10

organ

Question 11

a German Benedictine nun, poet, and visionary, canonized as a saint in 2012.

Answer 11

Hildegard of Bingen

Question 12

two choirmasters in the Cathedral of Notre Dame known for their overelaborate style of organum.

Answer 12

Leonin and Perotin

Question 13

a French priest and poet. His well-known composition is the “Messe de Nostre Dame” or “Notre Dame Mass,” considered as the earliest polyphonic setting of the Mass.

Answer 13

Guillame De Machaut

Question 14

He was known to write both monophonic and polyphonic music. His famous work is the Jeu de Robin et Marion or The Play of Robin and Marion.

Answer 14

Adam de la Halle

Question 15

a pastoral play about a knight’s courting of a shepherdess.

Answer 15

Jeu de Robin et Marion or The Play of Robin and Marion.