Medieval and Renaissance
Across
- 2. / the composer of "As Vesta was descending."
- 6. / known today for his geometry, he wrote extensively on the overtone series.
- 12. /a chant by an anonymous composer who lived in the early Middle Ages.
- 14. / An important Medieval composer, most of whose opus has survived.
- 16. / a quiet instrument classification. An example is a recorder.
- 18. / a sacred genre (plural), "Ave Maria...virgo serena" is an example.
- 21. / the composer of "Ave Maria..virgo serena."
- 23. / an incomplete melodic idea.
- 25. / an extremely well-known Medieval composer, especially considering this person's gender, also the composer of _________________________/
- 29. / the study of art to learn about other disciplines.
- 30. / this element often controls the rhythm of a chant.
- 31. / Counterpoint is a type of ______________.
- 35. / this and a Monastery were the only Medieval source for a literary education.
- 37. / the composer of Pope Marcellus Mass.
- 38. / a loud instrument classification. An example is a crumhorn.
- 39. / the genre of "Flow my Tears."
- 40. / The musical punctuation at the end of a musical phrase.
- 42. the harmony sounds pleasant.
- 44. / _________ Firmus, a chant used as the basis for a mass setting.
- 45. / a texture used as contrast in "As Vesta was descending."
- 46. / describing the text with music.
- 47. / an important transitional composer between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
- 48. / one note sung per syllable.
- 50. / "Lord" the movement from Pope Marcellus Mass.
- 52. / Works.
- 53. / a Medieval monk and composer at Notre Dame Cathedral, the older one.
- 54. / A dance tune ___________________________ might have danced to.
Down
- 1. / the genre of "As Vesta was descending."
- 3. / the instrument used in a Renaissance song genre.
- 4. / a wandering minstrel.
- 5. / the genre of "Notre Dame" by Machaut.
- 7. / add a second, parallel voice line to a chant.
- 8. / a fast dance in triple meter.
- 9. / multiple notes sung on one syllable.
- 10. / a slow dance in duple meter.
- 11. / the text sung at every mass service
- 13. / the Northern French version of a Troubadour.
- 15. / the "New Art" age in the late Middle Ages.
- 17. / Troudadour song composed by _________________
- 19. / types of scales used in the Middle Ages. One is called Dorian.
- 20. / the English for "virgo serena."
- 22. / "you forgot me" (a rondeau by Machaut)
- 24. last name of the inventor of the music moveable type printing press.
- 26. / the composer of "Flow my Tears"
- 27. / another career for which Machaut was famous.
- 28. / a melody, often more than one phrase.
- 32. / A chant.
- 33. A three note chord made of third intervals, first used by the British Isles composers.
- 34. / a troubadour
- 36. / a texture used as contrast in "Ave Maria...virgo serena.
- 41. / a genre that uses only voices.
- 43. / the profession of the person who wrote the piece in ____________________________.
- 44. / an instrumental ensemble of the same instrument in different sizes.
- 49. / the movement from "Notre Dame" by Machaut in our textbook.
- 51. / A vernacular language.