MEDIEVAL MUSIC REVIEW

MEDIEVAL MUSIC REVIEWPart II

•Review of Listening•Terms and Readings

EQ: What do you need to know for your test on medieval music?

Concepts• Feudalism- Be able to explain it in a few

sentences• Church Modes- Know all 7 modes and what notes

each one starts on• Treble Clef- Identify the lines and the spaces• Troubadours- what are they? Can you name one?• Composers: We studied two of them. Be able to

name them, know their birth and death dates, and the piece of music each was most famous for.

• Instruments: Identify by listening, know which instrument family it belongs to, and draw them

• Sacred vs. Secular- Be able to tell the difference

Questions• What role did the church play in the medieval

era? • How many years did the medieval time period

last?• Did men or women typically sing chant?• Which mode is the same as a modern major

scale?

Terms

• Plainsong (plainchant)• Antiphonal• Responsorial• Unison• Monophonic• Polyphonic• Organum• Conductus• NEW! Motet- a short unaccompanied choral work for two

voices

Find the 4 differences

How Should You Study?

• Make sure you have all the pages of readings and go back and ACTUALLY READ THEM. (pgs. 11-19)

• Go to the music history Wiki and check out the PowerPoints that have all of the listening examples on them…and then LISTEN

• Be able to define all terms right off the top of your head

• Use this as a guide and be comfortable explaining all the concepts listed