Medieval Music
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- 3. French composer who wrote in Ars Nova style and composed chansons motets and the first complete setting of the Mass Ordinary
- 5. the quality created by the combination of the different elements in a work of music
- 8. Painting the musical technique of composing music that reflects the literal meaning of a song's lyrics or story elements in programmatic music
- 10. monk whose was among the first to discuss polyphony
- 13. German music theorist who wrote Ars Cantus Mensurabilis
- 15. the structure of a musical composition or performance
- 16. Songs music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing
- 18. a medieval singer or musician especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry to a musical accompaniment for the nobility
- 19. an existing melody used as the basis for a polyphonic composition
- 22. period of European history for 5th to 15th century
- 25. blind organist and composer was a leading figure in the Italian Trecento style
- 27. the new art
- 29. Italian music form from the 13th century AbbaA
- 30. is in general any lyric-driven French song, usually polyphonic and secular
- 31. 13th century music treatise
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- 1. a form of early polyphony based on an existing plainsong
- 2. nun, philosopher, and composer
- 4. English composer began using the triadic sound of the Renaissance
- 6. the combination of qualities expected of an ideal knight especially courage honor courtesy justice and a readiness to help the weak
- 7. consisting of a single musical line, without accompaniment
- 9. a short musical passage in two or more phrases used for singing unmetrical words, a psalm or canticle sung to such music
- 11. late Medieval form ABaAabAB
- 12. a short piece of sacred choral music typically polyphonic and unaccompanied
- 14. a composition for two voices arranged in unaccompanied polyphony
- 17. in two or more parts each having a melody of its own
- 18. a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy to music
- 20. a type of musical scale coupled with a set of characteristic melodic behaviors
- 21. late medieval form ABbaA
- 23. a form of chant that has been given formalized rules credited to Pope Gregory I
- 24. the style of simultaneously combining a number of parts each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other
- 26. a book document or piece of music written by hand rather than typed or printed.
- 28. denoting attitudes activities or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis
- 29. late medieval form AaB