Chapter 1-3: Final

Music in which each syllable of a text is set to one musical note.

The French composer that emerged as the most important poet and composer of his century.

A sound that is harsh to our ears, convey tension, or instability.

Most of the music that has survived the Middle Ages is

Inventor of the staff notation system.

The way beats are grouped together in music.

Who was known for being an influential religious leader, artist, poet, scientist, and musician in the Middle Ages?

Music that has one melodic line and accompaniment.

The group that considered issues of the church's authority and organizational structure.

Rhythm that follows the rhythm of the text and is not notated.

Renaissance secular music may be compared to this style of today's music.

These songs consisted of voices with one or both of the two lower voices being played by instruments.

Refers to how high the wave form appears to vibrate.

Two or more meters played simultaneously.

These traveling singer-songwriters accompanied themselves with instruments and wrote secular music?

An extremely important form of music in the Renaissance, sung in the Roman Catholic Church.

The study of how sound behaves in physical spaces.

Longtudinal waves that travel through a solid, liquid, or gas.

The leader of the Protestant reformation during the Renaissance.

What years were the middle ages?

He sponsored the collection of Songs for the Virgin Mary.

The volume of music.

He nailed The Ninety0five Thesis on Wittenberg Church Door.

The language hymns were sung in during the middle ages.

The speed of the beat in music.

Early Protestant hymns set biblical texts in this language

Another name for renaissance is "rebirth".

He started the School of Athens.

A vocal piece set for three for four voices.

The steady pulse or heartbeat in music.

A musical piece for several solo voices set to a short poem and most were about love.

Music that derived from a particular culture and withstood the test of time.

The ways in which musical lines of a musical piece interact.

How low or high a pitch can be.

Tone color or tone quality.

A note produced from organized sound waves.

The intentional organization of sounds time by and for humans.

Music that has one melodic line.

The distance between two pitches.

The distance between the lowest and highest notes of a melody.

Vertical lines in music.

Which class was the primary source of information?

The organization of all musical elements in time.

Multiple pitches sung to one syllable of text is called

A sustained pitch or pitches often found in music of the middle ages or earlier and in folk music

Who is thought of as a father of the modern study of acoustics.

Actor, song and dance performer, and a comedian, immortalized for having created comic roles in Shakespeare.

The English composer is known for composing Anthems.

These were medieval street musicians. They were peasants.

He became one of the finest English madrigal composers.

Artists and authors of the renaissance became interested in classical ______ and _____.

Music that has more than one melodic line.