Medieval Music

What are the two main classifications of the Medieval Music?

• Social and Political

• Sacred and Secular

• Formal and Informal

• Local and International

The Lyre belongs to what musical instrument family?

• Lute

• Woodwind

• Brass

• Percussion

What are the themes usually pertained by the Medieval Secular Music?

• Love

• Joy

• Nationalism

• Pain

The Troubadour Music became popular during the ____________?

This is an unaccompanied sacred monophonic song, usually in Latin, and was used by the Western Catholic Church during the 9th and 10th Centuries in Western and Central Europe.

• Plainchant

• Gregorian Chant

• Lied

• Chanson

The ________________ is a plucked, fretted string instrument that is the predecessor of the modern Guitar.

• Lyre

• Mandore

• Ocarina

• Piccolo

The melodies of the Gregorian Chants are written using _______________, an early form of music notation from which the five-lined modern one developed.

A process that weaves together different musical motifs used to create families of related chants.

• Centralization

• Cetonization

• Celebration

A series of four notes separated by three intervals.

• Tetrapack

• Tetracord

• Tetrachord

• Hexachord

He is a French poet, musician, composer, and trouvere. He is the famous troubadour composer featured in our textbook.

• Luciano Pavarotti

• Andrea Bocelli

• Adam de la Halle

• Guillaume de Machaut