Music History Units A-C

Who is the composer of this work?

One of the most influential composers and theorists of the Ars Nova. Wrote a treatise called Ars nova notandi

The composer who became so known for a particular chromatic cadential pattern that it is named after them.

A work of satirical verse from 1310/1314 (two books) which contained over 150 pieces of music.

The science of sound; the branch of physics crucial to understanding music, pioneered by Pythagoras.

What instrument is shown here?

The final note of a mode, the key-note. Similar to tonic in the tonal system.

What style of notation is represented in this image?

Organum in which the voices maintain parallel perfect intervals.

A composer of the Notre-Dame school noted for 4-voice organum

A new style of composition in the Notre-Dame school in which the tenor and all upper voices move rhythmically.

The first composer of note; wrote expressive chant; composer of the liturgical drama Ordo Virtutum

A traveling musician, often poor (not aristocratic) in the style of a troubadour, sometimes in service to troubadours.

The second voice in the polyphony of the Notre-Dame School (just above the Tenor)

Greek two-pipe double-reed instrument; loud and expressive.

A symbol of musical notation indicating two or three pitches; precursor to modern notehead.

“New Art”, the name for a style of music of the 14th century pioneered by composers Jean des Murs and Phillipe de Vitry.

The transmission of any cultural tradition by word of mouth.

The French composer who wrote the first polyphonic setting of the Mass Ordinary

A type of chant with a rhyming text and/or a regular rhythmic pattern, designed to be easy to remember.

Troubadours wrote music in French.

Associated with a restrained or more classical attitude toward art and artistic expression

A Gregorian chant (or other tune) used as the basis for a new composition.

The Quadrivium (4 crucial parts of a Greek education) contained music, arithmetic, geometry, and

The repeating pitch pattern of an isorhythmic tenor is known as the "Color".

A musical technique where multiple voices “trade” a melody back and forth

Greek music contained no instruments.

The Sanctus is the only part of the Mass Ordinary not in Latin.