Development of Western Music in Europe (ca. 450-ca.1450)

Guillaume de Machaut

________ (1300- 1377) started to compose "musical labyrinth "or what we call "isorhythm.

Perotin

________ brought that pulse and rhythm to Notre Dames sacred music and developed a system to notate it.

Plainchants

________ developed separately everywhere in Christian Europe depending on the local tastes and traditions but it was at first all orally transmitted and memorized.

primitive stage of polyphony

It is generally considered as the most ________ in Western music.

Organum

________: centuries later, they added a second line to the main melody with different notes but always going in parallel.

courts of Al Andalous

The troubadours were themselves inspired by the professional singers of the ________ in Muslim Spain.

Organum

centuries later, they added a second line to the main melody with different notes but always going in parallel

rhythm notation

Inspired by the troubadours (traveling poets, songwriters, musicians), Perotin brought a big new ingredient to western music: ______________

monophonic

For centuries, plainchant or plainsong was __________ and transmitted orally from monk to monk or nun to nun.

the main shape of the melody.

To memorize all the hymns, monks created a type of notation to remember ____________________________.

Guido of Arrezo (~AD 1000)

created a system of notating pitches

Authorship

People claimed their name as composers on a piece.

Perotin

a young composer working at Notre Dame of Paris in France, became known for his radical approach to harmony and also for his development of rhythm notation.