Medieval Era Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. / a lowering in the voice
  2. 4. / songs in which multiple singers sing the same melody at different times.
  3. 5. / Vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style.
  4. 8. Chant / named after Pope Gregory 1, unifying the church across Europe.
  5. 9. / Wandering minstrel, bard, musician, or other poet, common in Europe.
  6. 11. Neumes / carefully placed at different heights, gave indication of interval and direction.
  7. 12. / the language that most church music is sung in.
  8. 14. / combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other.
  9. 17. / fretted instrument with a pear-shaped hollow body.
  10. 20. / Simple and Compound meter
  11. 21. Organum / move in parallel motion, but also oblique, or contrary motion.
Down
  1. 1. / Lyric driven French song
  2. 3. / the simultaneous performance of different versions of the same melody by different voices or instruments.
  3. 4. / monophonic sacred form which represents the earliest known music of the Christian church.
  4. 6. / a form of heterophony, expanded plainchant melody by being accompanied by intervals of perfect fourths or fifths.
  5. 7. / single melodic line, no accompaniment
  6. 10. Organum / one sustained line accompanied by a florid melismatic line.
  7. 13. / a raise in the voice
  8. 15. / systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.
  9. 16. Dramas / Developed from early poetic embellishments of the liturgical texts.
  10. 18. / Church Mode
  11. 19. / expanded plainchant melody accompanied by intervals of perfect fourths or fifths.