2.1 Music of the Middle Ages

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  1. 2. These musicians were an essential source of information and often sang songs composed by troubadours.
  2. 4. A school where boys were taught to read and perform the chants for worship.
  3. 5. The first name of a French composer who wrote both secular and sacred music. His catalog is one of the largest surviving collections from the middle ages.
  4. 7. When a soloist alternates with a choir in plainchant.
  5. 11. One of two French choirmasters who were from the School of Notre Dame.
  6. 13. A variety of plainchant that was the official music of the Roman Catholic church.
  7. 14. Secular music was mainly passed on in this way, due to the illiteracy of the general population.
  8. 15. The first name of the German nun was the first woman composer from whom musical works have survived.
  9. 19. Poet-composers active in noble courts and villages
  10. 21. As opposed to the Latin used by the church, secular music was sung using this.
  11. 22. Most rhythms of the late middle ages were divided by this number, to represent the holy trinity.
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  1. 1. A text setting in which some syllables are sung over many pitches.
  2. 3. The first written harmony moved in this fashion at the interval of a fourth or fifth.
  3. 6. This pope reorganized the Catholic liturgy, including its music.
  4. 8. When two choirs alternate in plainchant.
  5. 9. When all voices sing together in plainchant.
  6. 10. The pitch symbols used in plainchant notation.
  7. 12. A collection of the most frequently used chants in the Catholic liturgy.
  8. 16. The standard spoken text and music that make up a worship service.
  9. 17. This country became the center of musical development after 1150.
  10. 18. Between 700 and 900, monks in monasteries began experimenting with adding this to chants.
  11. 20. A text setting in which every syllable gets one pitch.