IB Music HL: Middle Ages Vocab

the love poem forms

established the repetition theme

courtly love poem writing

often included palindromic form

had puzzles and riddles hidden within the music

what was replaced by ars nova

AKA: new art

a musical style in the early 1300s in france and italy

notable composer is Guilaume de Machaut

notable styles: chansons rondeau ballade and virelai

poets / musicians in the north of France

both south and north are inventors of love songs and chronicles of the crusades

inventors in the south of france are poets / musicians

both south and north are inventors of love songs and chronicles of the crusades

fixed pattern of long of short notes that is repeated to varied

two three or four voice parts sung in fixed rhythmic patterns

early form of polyphony

paris’s cathedral of notre dame was a center for this

based on preexisting chants

combination of two or more simultaneous melodic lines

originally improvised and eventually notated

featured in traditional music

christian music themes

idea of plainchant music types

shared feature among many world cultures

voices only

no instrument accompaniment

several distinct pitches assigned to a single syllable

a symbol that notates two to four notes in the same syllable

each syllable is sung for two to four notes

when one syllable of chant is one neume

when the syllables of a word represent an individual musical note

a series of seven musical scales

two half steps

five whole steps.

AKA: chant

monophonic nonmetric melody set in one of the church modes / scales

early Christian church music