Medieval Era Vocabulary Crossword
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- 4. Vocal music performed without instrumental accompaniment.
- 6. Medieval abbess and composer known for expressive sacred vocal music.
- 8. Medieval pitch patterns used before modern major and minor scales.
- 9. Music Music written or performed for religious worship.
- 10. A late Medieval musical style whose name means “new art.”
- 11. Poet-musician from northern France who performed secular songs.
- 13. The central worship service of the Roman Catholic Church.
- 14. Notre Dame composer who helped develop early two-part polyphony.
- 16. Poet-musician from southern France who performed songs about courtly love.
- 18. Music containing one melodic line without harmony.
- 20. Early symbols showing the general shape and direction of a melody.
- 21. Religious music in which sacred words are sung using one melodic line.
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- 1. Music Music created for nonreligious purposes.
- 2. Another name for unaccompanied, monophonic sacred chant.
- 3. Several notes sung on one syllable.
- 5. Medieval teacher who improved methods for reading and teaching written music.
- 7. Monophonic, unaccompanied sacred music associated with the Roman Catholic Church.
- 12. Notre Dame composer who wrote music using three or four vocal parts.
- 13. Period Period of Western music history lasting approximately from 500 to 1400 CE.
- 15. Music containing two or more independent melodies at the same time.
- 17. A polyphonic vocal composition using sacred or secular texts.
- 19. Early polyphony created by adding vocal lines to an existing chant.