Medieval Era Vocabulary

4. move in parallel motion, but also oblique, or contrary motion.
6. Church Mode
11. Simple and Compound meter
13. Lyric driven French song
14. fretted instrument with a pear-shaped hollow body.
17. one sustained line accompanied by a florid melismatic line.
20. songs in which multiple singers sing the same melody at different times.
21. the language that most church music is sung in.

1. carefully placed at different heights, gave indication of interval and direction.
2. single melodic line, no accompaniment
3. combining a number of parts, each forming an individual melody and harmonizing with each other.
5. Developed from early poetic embellishments of the liturgical texts.
7. the simultaneous performance of different versions of the same melody by different voices or instruments.
8. named after Pope Gregory 1, unifying the church across Europe.
9. expanded plainchant melody accompanied by intervals of perfect fourths or fifths.
10. a form of heterophony, expanded plainchant melody by being accompanied by intervals of perfect fourths or fifths.
12. systems of musical notation prior to the invention of five-line staff notation.
13. monophonic sacred form which represents the earliest known music of the Christian church.
15. a raise in the voice
16. Wandering minstrel, bard, musician, or other poet, common in Europe.
18. Vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style.
19. a lowering in the voice