Medieval Era Vocabulary Crossword

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.

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.