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36 Cards in this Set
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Another name for the Medieval Period
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Medium Aevum
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What branch of Catholicism was the strongest?
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Western
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How many crusades were there?
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7
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When was a major crusade and who began it?
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1095, Pope Urban.
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When did the Black Death begin? where?
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14th Century.
form of the bubonic plague Originated in China |
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When was the Spanish Inquisition begun?
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1231
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Important proponents of English literature
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Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
Beowulf Sir. Thomas Arthur: Mort d' Arthur |
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Important song type in Germany
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Nieblungenlied
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Important proponents of Italian literature
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Dante: Divine Comedy
Petrarch: Conzoniere |
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Three types of theatre
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liturgical drama
miracle and mystery plays morality paly |
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Two types of architecture
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Romanesque (1000-1250)
Gothic (1140-1400) |
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Major proponents of Romanesque architecture
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stone-vaulted buildings
domes castles: moat, drawbridge, keep |
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Major Proponents of Gothic architecture
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ribbed vault
flying buttresses |
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Different types of Visual Art
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-stain glass
-frescoes -illumintaed manuscripts -metalwork -tapestries -painting -sculpture |
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What is plainchant?
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the monophonic vocal music of the church
created by Pope Gregory about 3000 exist sung as solo, unison or antiphonal non-metric, modal in Latin Based on Modes: Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Misolydian |
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What does Ite missa est mean?
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Go, or It is Sent
The last thing said, the dismissal in a Catholic Mass |
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What are the ordinary mass texts?
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-Kyrie (lord have mercy)
-Gloria (glory to God in the highest) -Credo (I believe in one God..) -Sanctus (holy, holy, holy) -Agnus Dei (lamb of god...) |
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What is organum?
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A melody sung, accompanied by a voice singing a 4th or 5th above it.
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What is cantus firmus?
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Music is sung and a lower voice holds the pitch or simply sustains notes longer at the bottom.
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Notation in the middle Ages
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music was mostly remembered through oral tradition, but as the amount of chants grew, notation was needed.
Neumes: inflection marks that did not specify a specific note, but how much space there was between notes. |
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Who was Guido of Arezzo?
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The man credited with creating the modern way we notate music, using ut-re-mi, an ancestor of do-re-mi.
He is famous for his "guidonian hand" where the notation could be written. |
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After neumes, how did notation evolve?
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-two lines, one red for f, one yellow for c
-12th century: four lines -13th century: mensural (using note shapes to indicate length they were to be held) -16th century: rounded notes |
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What were the 5 Holy Sees?
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Constantinople, Rome, Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria
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What are the 2 types of Mass text?
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proper and ordinary
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What compositional tradition was the first to use the 7th note in the scale?
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In secular music during the Ars Antiqua
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Notre Dame School!
Who was Leonin? Who was Perotin? |
Leonin introduced definite rhythmic patterns to chants
Perotin was a student of Leonin and he was first to compose music for chants with more than two voices. |
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Who was Guilliame Machaut? What did he do?
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He was a medieval composer who unifed the mass. All his works were preserved. His "Mass of Notre Dame" had the earliest polyphonic setting.
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What type of secular music was most prominent?
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Instrumental
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Who entertained people at court?
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troubadours, trouveres, minstrels and jongleurs.
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two types of Secular music during the Ars Antiqua and their proponents
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troubadour: duke of aquitane
trouveres: richard the lion heart |
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Composer during the ars antiqua
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philippe de vitry
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String Instruments
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lute, harp, psaltry, viele, rebec
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Woodwind instruments
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bagpipe, crumhorn
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Brass instruments
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slide trumper, sackbut
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percussion instruments
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drums, cymbals, bells
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keyboard instruments
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portative organ, organ, hurdy-gurdy
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