Yee Mapeh Flashcards
(44 cards)
This is a long instrument made of metal. This is usually for fanfare
Trumpet
This resembles a trombone instruments
Sackbut
This has a reed (a small piece of wood) that vibrates against the tongue or lips to produce sound. This resembles an oboe instrument
Shawm
This is an ancient instrument made from goat or sheep skin and a reed pipe. This is used by the poorest people.
Bagpipe
This is a drum instrument played in pairs.
Nakers
This is a small drum instrument made from the trunk of a tree or a metal with an animal skin stretched across the top of the hollow part.
Tabor
Loud Music
Hauts
Soft Music
Bas
This is a recorder-like woodwind musical instrument. This is one of the favourite musical instruments of the minstrels to use when traveling.
Flute
This is a flute-like woodwind musical instrument. this is held vertically from the lips of the player.
Recorder
This was a favourite musical instrument of the troubadours and minstrels.
Harp
This is a bowed or plucked string instrument placed under the chin of the player.
Fiddle
This is a pear-shaped plucked string instrument with a bent neck and a fretted fingerboard.
Lute
This is the principal musical instrument in the monasteries and cathedrals during the late medieval period. This was the only instrument allowed by the church authories.
Postives Organ
The first composer-poets to appear in Southern France and Northern Spain and Italy in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries were the ____
Troubadours
The ____ were the scales used in both sacred and secular music. They are composed of seven different tones and an eight note that duplicates the first note an octave higher.
Church modes
There are eight church modes, classified as ____ and ____
Authentic and Plagal
The four authentic modes
Dorian, phygrian, lydian, and mixoldian
The four plagal modes
Hypodorian, hypophrygian, hypolydian, and hypomixolydian.
____ was a French poet and composer. He was the first to write a polyphonic setting to the mass ordinary.
Guillaume de Machaut
A development was introduced by Pérotin and Léonin (or Leoninus) called _____, an early church polyphony.
Organum
The first composer of polyphonic music who lived in the latter part of the twelfth century and earned extensive fame.
Leonin
The composers during the thirteenth century added more than one new voice above a plainchant making three- and four-voice compositions of varied and rich texture called ____. _____ is the most important form of the early polyphonic music. the term “___” was derived from the French word mot, referring to the words added to the vocal lines.
Motet
The ___ is a Roman Catholic Church’s central and leading worship service.
Mass