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| The prescribed body of texts to be spoken or sung and ritual actions to be performed in a religious service. Includes introductory prayer, gospel (teaching), and communion |
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| A system of sightsinging, a pattern of 6 notes (a hexachord) |
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| Earliest secular song written, named after a fictitious and scurrilous patron, Bishop |
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| Only instrumental music currently known of from the medieval era—sounds like dance music |
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| Composition made from taking a section from clausula and making it into a new composition |
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| Greater differentiation between upper voices as well as from the tenor. |
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| Form of medieval English polyphony in which two or more voices sing the same melody, entering at different times and repeating the melody until all stop together. |
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| Motet in which tenor lays out regularly occurring rhythm, and has recurring rhythmic or melodic patterns |
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| Recurring rhythmic patterns |
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| Recurring melody patterns |
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| To hiccup, voices are in rapid succession, in which voices alternate using same talea, color, or both |
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| The 1300s (the fourteenth century), particularly with reference to Italian art, literature, and music of the time. |
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| Named after composer, concluding of a phrase which uses a major 6th to the octave by which a lower neighbor leaps up to a 3rd in the top voice. |
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| Male poet-composers from southern France *Spoke Provençal |
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| Female poet-composers from southern France *Spoke Provençal |
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| Poet-composers from northern France *Spoke langue d'oïl, the dialect that became modern French |
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| Poet-composers of medieval Germany who wrote monophonic songs, particularly about love, in Middle High German, generally written in church modes |
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| Tradesmen and artisans from German Colonies |
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