MUSIC REVIEWER

The mirror of humanity

What year did the Medieval Period started and ended?

Answer: 700 – 1400
Medieval Period is also known as what?
Answer: Middle Ages or dark ages
This starter with the fall of the Roman Empire; this is also the
start of written music
Answer: Medieval Period
This type of medieval music was mainly used in the early
Christian music; the staring form of music for the Medieval
Period
Answer: Gregorian Chant
What style was used in Gregorian Chants?
Answer: Monophonic style without harmonies
What are the 5 characteristics of Medieval Music?
Answer: Texture, tonality, rhythm, small vocal music and
instrumental music
What is the texture of Medieval Music?
Answer: Monophonic
What is the tonality of Medieval Music?
Answer: Church modes
How can you describe the rhythm of Medieval Music?
Answer: Chants employed unmeasured rhythm and large vocal
works
Small vocal music in Medieval Music contained what?
Answer: Chants, organum and motet
Instrumental music in Medieval music contained what?
Answer: Dance and other secular (non-religious songs)
compositions
Monophonic chants were named after which pope? That pope
was also the one whose actions made monophonic plain chants
popular
Answer: Pope Gregory I
How were monophonic chants originally transmitted?
Answer: Orally but scholars agreed to put it in notation
What are the 5 characteristics of Gregorian Chants?
Answer: Monophonic, Free meter, modal, usually based on
Latin Liturgy and use of Neume notation
This consists of a single musical line without accompaniment, a
singing style of it is known as Gregorian Chant
Answer: Monophonic
This is a type of musical anti-meter free form musical time and
time signature
Answer: Free time
This uses recurring melodies and/or phrases to create a specific
atmosphere or emotional response
Answer: Modal
How is modal music played?
Answer: Played by scales but in a fashion that is distinct from
tonal music
In modals, how are scales classified?
Answer: They aren’t classified as major or minor but rather in
scales
What do you call a note or a group of notes to be sung in a
single syllable
Answer: Neume
This type of secular music emerged during the latter part of the
Medieval Period; these were not bound by catholic traditions
Answer: Trobadour Music
Where was Trobadour Music mostly performed?
Answer: Across Europe
What do you call a group of musicians who perform Trobadour
Music?
Answer: Trobadours
What are the characteristics of Trobadour Music?
Answer: Usually Monophonic, sometimes woth improvised
accompaniment, tells of chivalry and courtly love, originated in
France and it is written in the French language
What was the name of a famous composer during the Medieval
Period?
Answer: Adam De La Hale
What year was Adam De La Hale born?
Answer: 1237
What year did Adam De La Halle die?
Answer: 1288
Adam De La Halle was also known as what?
Answer: Adam le Bossu (Adam the Hunchback in English)
Adam was the son of a well-known citizen of Arras named?
Answer: Henri De la Halle
Where did Adam De la Halle receive his education?
Answer: Cistercian Abbey of Vaucelles
He is one of the oldest secular composers
Answer: Adam De la Halle
Adam’s literary and musical works include what?
Answer: Chansons and poetic debates
What does a trouvere mean?
Answer: Poet composers who were roughly contemporary with
and influenced by the trobadors
Adam De la Halle’s works includes what?
Answer: La Jeu de Robin et de Marion and La Chanson du roi
de Sicile