Medieval Period

Monophonic

Using one line of music- no other voices or instruments

Nonmetric

Music that lacks a regular meter/beat, rhythm is free

Modal

Style of music uses a diatonic scale, but not in traditional tonal way

Mass ordinary

Mass Proper

1. Fixed unchanging texts (used in every mass)

2. Text that varies according to liturgical calendar (Catholic Calendar)

Neumes

A sign for one or a group of successive musical pitches

Hildegard Bingen

Female composer, visionary, theologian, abbess

Responsorial

Soloist starts with verse or chant then a group responds with refrain or chant

Polyphony

2 or more simultaneous, independent melodic lines

Organum (organa voice)

A plainchant melody with at least one added voice

Rhythmic modes

set patterns of long and short durations

Leonin

Pertonin

1. A pioneering composer of polyphonic organum

2. Composer associated with Notre dame school of polyphony

Secular

Not Religious

Troubadour and Trouvere Songs

non-religious poems, songs, dance, medieval vernacular

Vernacular

Language/dialect spoken by ordinary people in certain country/region

Estampie

Textless, monophonic musical work with instrumental and dance

Strophic

same music is repeated for each verse/stanza, while lyrics change

Gregorian Chant

• Sacred

• Monophonic

• Nonmetric

• Syllabic, Neumatic, Melismatic

• Modal

• Mass Proper and Mass Oridinary

• Neumes

Hildegard of Bingen (section)

• Monasteries

• Verse

• Responsorial

Early Polyphony (Notre Dame School) (section)

• Polyphony

• Organum (organal Voice)

• Rhythmic Modes

• Leonin and Perotin

Troubadour and Trouvere Songs (Section)

• Secular

• Vernacular

• Estampie

• Strophic