The wandering minstrels, or jongleurs, of the Middle Ages
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-performed music and acrobatics in castles, taverns, town squares, lived on the lowest level of society, and played instrumental dances on harps, fiddles, and lutes
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The ars nova, or new technique, of the 14th century differed from older music in that
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-a new system of notation permitted composers to specify almost any rhythmic pattern
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The first steps toward the development of polyphony were taken sometime b/w 700-900, when
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-monks in monastery choirs began to add a 2nd melodic line to Gregorian chant
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The Notre Dame Mass by Guillaume de Machaut was..
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-the first polyphonic treatment of the mass ordinary by a known composer
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Leonin and Perotin are notable because
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-they are the first important composers known by name, leonin wrote the first surviving book on polyphony, they were the leaders of the school notre dame
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Gregorian chant is named after Pop Gregory I, who
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-was credited by medieval legend with having created it
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The center of polyphonic music in Europe after 1150 was
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-Paris
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Gregorian chant..
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-was the official church music of the Catholic church for 1000+ years
-is monophonic
-is set to sacred Latin texts
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Medieval music that consists of Gregorian chant and one or more melodic line is called
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-organum
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The foremost composer of 14th century France was
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-Guillaume de Machaut
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The texture of Renaissance music is chiefly
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-polyphonic
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The dominant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was called
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-humanism
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Palestrina's career centered in
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-Rome
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Josquin des Prez was a contemporary of
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-Christopher Columbus
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A madrigal, like a motet, is a vocal composition that combines homophonic and polyphonic textures but it differs from the motet in that it
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-uses a vernacular rather than Latin text
-more often uses word painting and unusual harmonies
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