Early Music

1. Musical texture consisting of a single unaccompanied melodic line.
2. Note or notes sustained throughout an entire piece or section
7. synonymous with the Middle Ages
9. this planchant genre consists of a series of short tunes sung twice each
13. A long melodic passage sung to a single syllable
15. poet-composers from southern France
17. Music like plainchant which has no clearly established meter
18. A genre of Gregorian chant with elaborate melodies
19. reciting words to music, generally monophonic and for liturgical purposes
21. A style of chant music that takes the form of a melody and nothing more.
22. determined the course that music would take for nearly a thousand years.
23. the first great woman composer

1. a term for nearly a thousand years of European history.
3. the earliest type of polyphony
4. A simple, easily singable melody that is coherent and complete.
5. Popular musicians throughout a majority of the Middle Ages
6. the most important troubadour composer
8. a popular troubadour style of song
10. lines of text in music or poetry; a verse
11. In Gregorian chant, the pitch on which the text is sung is
12. he controlled technique of writing polyphonic music
14. dance music from the Middle Ages
16. Musical texture in which two or more independent melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously.
20. Church services were arranged by higher authority