Medieval Music

3. Sacred music which is sung a cappella
6. The combination of different sounds and melodies played or sung at the same time
7. Period in European history after the fall of the Roman empire
8. First form of polyphony
11. A musical notation system that uses neumes, which are signs that represent one or more musical pitches
12. Polyphonic music from the 12th-13th centuries
13. Polyphonic music from the 14th century
15. Secular, educated artist, poets or musicians

1. A combination of sounds that make a melody using a single part or voice
2. Spoken poem or song in polyphonic form that tells a story
4. A visual representation of music that can be written or printed
5. monophonic musicians and actors from poor families
9. Freely composed setting of a single metrical Latin text
10. musical form and compositional technique in which voices (or instrumental parts) sing or play the same music starting at different times beginning in the Ars Nova era
14. Symbols written over text to help monks remember the melody (later evolved into square notation and helped indicate the pitch of each sound)