The Middle Ages Music Terms

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Across
  1. 1. signs above a line of text to indicate the direction of the melody
  2. 5. court poets and composers of the 12-13th century in Northern France
  3. 9. one line of music with no accompaniment
  4. 10. learning by repetition from memory and through practice
  5. 12. scales other than major and minor
  6. 14. music consisting of 2 or more melodic lines that are played or sung at the same time
  7. 15. anything singable, simple, popular in style, and for solo voice that usually tells a story
Down
  1. 2. a wandering musician who provided his own accompaniment to his singing
  2. 3. monophonic chants also called Gregorian Chants
  3. 4. sounding of the same at the same time by two or more players, singers
  4. 6. a short vocal canon at the unison or 8ve for unaccompanied singing (a circle song)
  5. 7. 2 or more melodies happening at the same time
  6. 8. a type of vocal excersise in which the names of the notes are used throughout (do, re, ect.)
  7. 9. elaborate melodies with many notes sung to one syllable of text
  8. 11. a secular form of music that had 2 or more voices singing separate melodies to a literary text a cappella
  9. 13. a song that has a solo voice and choral refrain alternated