Music q1 Flashcards
(34 cards)
“Dark Ages”
Medieval
Most important musicians in the medieval period
Priests
Most important occupation in medieval period
Liturgical singing
Most practiced in medieval period
Chant
Medieval Period: Official music of the Roman Catholic Church
Gregorian Chant
Composer of Gregorian Chant
Pope Gregory the first
Medieval Period: Singing 2 melody simultaneously
Organum
Medieval Period: Most important form of early polyphonic music. Sacred & secular.
Motet
Medieval Period: Roman Catholic Church’s central and leading worship service.
Mass
Medieval Period: Instrumental form secular songs composed by French/Court Ministrels
Troubador
Medieval Period: French poet and musician who composed “Notre Dame Mass”
Guillaume de Machaut
Medieval Period: One of the oldest secular composers who is a trouvere, poet, & musician, and made “Jeu de Robin et Marion”
Adam de la Halle
“Golden Age of Polyphony”
Renaissance
What does “renaitre” mean?
rebirth, revival, & rediscovery
Renaissance” Discovered the actual position of the earth in the solar system
Copernicus
Who started the protestant reformation in the renaissance?
Martin Luther
Renaissance: ________’s paintings & sculptures manifest human spirit
Michelangelo
Renaissance: ______’s plays became known and famous
Shakespeare
Renaissance: influence of the _______ started to decline
Roman Catholic Church
Renaissance: Sacred musical composition & polyphonic
Renaissance Mass
Renaissance: Latin religious choral composition
Renaissance Motet
Renaissance: The composer of “Ave Maria”?
Josquin des Prez
Renaissance: “Gloria”
Giovanni Pierluigi de Palestrina
Renaissance: Father of English Madrigal–“Month of Maying”
Thomas Morley
