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| What are the names of the six eras of classical music and their approximate time periods? |
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Middle Ages: 400-1400
Renaissance: 1400-1600
Baroque: 1600-1750
Classical: 1750-1820
Romantic: 1820-1920
Twentieth Century: 1920-present |
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| The characteristics that set apart the music of one historical period from another. |
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| When did written music appear? |
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| Who were the keepers of medieval literature and music? |
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| Has to do with Religious Mass |
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| Religious but tells a story from the bible |
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| Religious but tells a story from the bible |
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| Music with more than one line or part sounding at the same time |
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| What is another name for plainchant |
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| For whom was the liturgical music named? |
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| From what language are modes named? |
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| What name is given to the melodic system of the Medieval Era? |
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| List the names of the six modes |
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| Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian |
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| What name was given to the notes in Medieval music manuscripts? |
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| Made of animal hides called vellum. There were four lines to a staff and they were red. |
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| What language is Kyrie Elieson written in? |
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| In what langre most of the Gregorian chants written? |
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| Male poet/musicians that composed songs for the aristorcratic courts of southern France |
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| Who is Phillipe De Vitry? |
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| Wrote the first music theory text. |
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| Who is Guillanme De Machant? |
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| Wrote the earliest known complete setting of the ordinary of the mass written by a composer |
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