MAPEH - Music 1st Grading

Color

Recurring melodic idea

The clef

indicates the location of Do in the case of Do clef and Fa in the same of Fa clef.

Trobar

"To compose," "to discuss," or "to find."

Neumatic

A group of neumes is assigned to one syllable of text.

Pastourelle

A kind of heraldic piece that usually contains a dialogue between a knight and a peasant girl.

True

A neume starts at the beginning of a syllable

Tremolo

A trembling effect

Minstrels or Jongleurs

Acrobat performers and considered under the lowest social level.

Adam le Bossu or Adam the Hunchback

Adam de la Halle was also called this.

Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion

Adam de la Halle's most famous work.

Plainsong or plainchant

Another term for Gregorian chant.

True

Each neume has a unique name

Organum

Early chant polyphony

Recorder

Flute-like musical instrument

Josquin des Prez

Franco-Flemish master of the Renaissance music

Adam de la Halle

French trouvere poet and composer.

Mot

French word referring to the words that were added to the vocal lines.

Minnesingers

German counterparts

Pope Marcellus Mass

Giovanni's most famous work.

Ordinary of the Mass

Had chants with unvarying texts that were sung almost every day.

Guillaume de Machaut

He was a french poet and composer. He was the first to write a polyphonic setting of the mass ordinary.

Leonardo da Vinci

He was a painter, architect, sculptor, engineer, scientist, and also a great musician.

Thomas Morley

He was a theorist, editor and organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. He was a famous Renaissance composer of secular music in Elizabeth England.

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

He was among the most significant Italian Renaissance composers who devoted to writing church music

Rinascimento

It means "rebirth."

Stile concitato

It means an agitated style

Madrigal

It was an aristocratic form of poetry and music. It flourished in Italy and became popular in England as well.

Gregorian Chant

Official music of the Roman Catholic Church

Lute

Pear shaped plucked string instrument

Positive organ

Principal musical instrument in monasteries and cathedrals during the late medieval period.

Talea

Recurring rhythmic idea

Mass

Roman Catholic Church's central and leading worship service.

Hauts

The "loud" or "outdoor"

Bas

The "soft" or "indoor"

Pope Gregory I the Great

The Gregorian Chant was referred to after ____.

Golden Age of Polyphony

The Renaissance is also known as ____.

Trouveres

The composer-performers whose influence reached even to Germany.

Troubadours

The first composer-poets to appear in southern France and northern Spain and Italy in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

True

The neume is always read from left to right like in modern notation but from bottom to top when notes are written on the same column

Melismatic

There are many notes assigned to one syllable of text, usually combining several groups of neums.

Psalmodic

There are many syllables assigned to one note of text.

Syllabic

There is one assigned note for each syllable of text.

Gregorian

This band performs Gregorian chant-inspired versions of modern pop and rock songs

Shawm

This has a reed that vibrates against the tongue or lips to produce sound. This resembles an oboe instrument.

Fiddle

This is a bowed or plucked string instrument placed under the chin of the player.

Nakers

This is a drum instrument played in pairs

trumpet

This is a long instrument made of metal. This is usually used for fanfares.

Flute

This is a recorder-like woodwind musical instrument.

Tabor

This is a small drum instrument made from the trunk of a tree or a metal with animal skin stretched across the top of the hollow part.

Bagpipe

This is an ancient instrument made from a goat or sheep skin and a reed pipe. This is used by the poorest people.

Sackbut

This resembles a trombone instrument

Harp

This was a favourite musical instrument of the troubadours and minstrels.

Father of English Madrigal

Thomas Morley was called this because of his great contribution in this musicals style

Musica transalpina

a collection of Italian madrigals

Isorhythm

a repeated rhythmic pattern throughout one or more voices.

Renaissance

came from the Italian term rinascimento

Organum

consists of a Gregorian chant and one or more added musical lines above the chant.

Secular music

divided between purely vocal works and those in which the singers were supported by instruments.

Leonin

first composer of polyphonic music

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy

for several decades, rivalled that of the kings of France in the brilliance of its art.

Middle Ages

it refers to the fall of the Roman empire and the age of reawakening and discovery.

Mass

made up of five sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei

Word painting

musical representation of particular poetic images

Neume

notes sung on a single syllable

Guillaume Dufay

one of the earliest composers of the Burgundian School.

Ave Maria

outstanding Renaissance choral piece. It sues polyphonic imitation.

Pizzicato

plucking effect

Church modes

scales used in both sacred and secular music; They are composed of seven different tones and an eight note that duplicates the first note an octave higher.

Motet

set to a sacred Latin text

Polyphony

simultaneous combination of sounds in music.

Monteverdi

spent 12 years at the court of the Duke of Mantua.

Motet

the most important form of early polyphonic music

Proper of the Mass

the sections of the Mass that are sung to texts that vary with each feast day