Music History: Medieval Polyphony, Ars Nova, and Trecento

Fill-in-the-blank flashcards covering Early Organum, Notre Dame Polyphony, Motets, Ars Nova, Ars Antique, Formes Fixes, Ars Subtilior, Trecento, and Musica Ficta.

In Parallel Organum, the original chant melody is called the principalis, while the added harmony part is called the __________.

organalis

In Parallel Organum, the organalis is a interval of a __________ or __________ away from the principalis.

P4 or P5

In Free Organum, the organalis can be a __________ of intervals away from the principalis.

variety

Organum originating from Old France where pitches are known but duration is not, featuring relationships like one to one, four to one, or six to one, is known as __________ Organum.

Aquitanian/Florid

In Organum Purum during Leonin's period (1150's-1190's), the bottom voice holds long note values while the top voice is __________.

melismatic

In Organum Discant, the __________ line is measured.

Tenor

A section of organum written in discant style during Leonin's era is called a __________.

Clausula

Rhythmic Modes de Garlandia were described in the treatise __________ and detailed a system of 6 notes based on rhythmic patterns of French/Latin poetry.

De Musica Mensurabilis

Leonin composed the __________, a collection of two-voiced organum (organum duplum) for the great feast of the church year.

Magnus liber organi

A __________ takes a PREVIOUS organalis and rewrites it while keeping the tenor line the same.

Substitute Clausula

In a motet, the voice that is in the tenor is called the __________.

Motetus

A motet composed of Motetus + Duplum + Triplum + Quadruplum is classified as a __________ motet.

triple

In English music, the interchanging of parts according to a scheme is called __________.

Rondellus

In English music, a cannon of the unison is known as a __________.

Rota

The 1320 French treatise Ars Nova, introducing a new notation method called mensuration, was written by __________.

Philippe de Vitry

Under Ars Nova notation, __________ subdivision became accepted in addition to triple subdivision.

Duple

In Ars Antique isorhythm, the repeating rhythmic pattern is called __________ and the repeating pitch pattern is called __________.

Talea; Color

The technique of dividing a melody into alternating notes across different melodic lines, described as a musical hiccup, is called __________.

Hocket

Guillaume de Machaut composed __________ isorhythmic motets, all of which are double motets with French/Latin text.

23

The earliest surviving polyphonic setting of the complete mass ordinary by a single known composer is Guillaume de Machaut's __________.

Notre Dame Mass

In Machaut's songs, the primary melodic line is called the __________.

cantus

The Forme Fixe structure AbbaA corresponds to the __________.

Virelai

The Forme Fixe structure ABaAabAB corresponds to the __________.

Rondeau

The Forme Fixe structure aab[C] corresponds to the __________.

Ballade

Described as Medieval Musical Mannerism, __________ involved showing off new technique so much that it became the technique itself.

Ars Subtilior

The major Trecento manuscript source containing multiple pages of Italian polyphonic music is the __________.

Squarcialupi Codex

A Trecento musical setting of an Italian poem for two or three voices with instrumental accompaniment is called a __________.

Madrigal

Italian Trecento pieces depicting outdoor hunting scenes with two-voiced canons chasing each other are called __________.

Caccia

In Landini cadences (Under Third Cadence), the upper voice typically moves in a __________ pattern rather than t-d.

t-l-d

Medieval loud instruments were designated as __________ while soft instruments were designated as __________.

Haut; Bas

Musica Ficta involved altering a notated pitch by a half step because those pitches lay outside of the __________.

Guidonian hand