Goliard
Wandering students and clerics who composed songs on varying topics.
Jongleur
Same latin as english Juggler – played in courts (lower class than bards or minstrels) Jack of all trade type acts.
Minstrel
Developed from Jongleur – they were specialized musicians
Troubadour
Northern France vernacular poet-composers
Trobairitz
Female troubadour
Trouvere
Southern France vernacular poet-composers
Minnesinger
German knightly poet-composers, minne (love) minnelieder (love-songs) mostly about duty and service that reflected loyalty
Musica enchiriadis
a treatise written about organum (the basis of the first polyphony)
Gothic
An architectural design of the mid 12th century
Romanesque
And architectural design from 11th- early 12th century
Included rounded arches and Frescoes (painted plaster)
chansonniers
surviving songs from troubadour and trouvere
many still survive
alba
“dawn-song”
canso
“love-song”
tenso
“debate-song”
Minnelieder
German Love-songs by Minnesinger
Cantigas de Santa Maria
Over 400 songs in Gallican-portuguese in honor of the Virgin Mary
Spain!
Estampie
Medieval Dance music in triple meter
Proper of the Mass
Introit
Gradual
Alleluia
Offertory
Communion
Ordinary of the Mass
Kyrie
Gloria
Credo
Sactus
Agnus Dei
Antiphon
sung before and after the psalm
Psalm
music accompanying the mass service
responsorial
call and response between soloist and choir/congregation
direct
no alternation
antiphonal
two halves of the choir alternate singing
syllabic
chants in which almost every syllable is 1 note
neumatic
syllables 1-6 notes
melismatic
chant includes melismas (more than 6)
Trope
a new addition to church chant
adding more words, melody, extending melismas, expanding from the original text, (neumatic)
Liturgical drama
Plays
Hildegard of Bigen
Nun famous for her prophecies.
Germany
Compositional gestures: Wide ranges, melodic figures, rising 5th followed by stepwise decent, circling around a cadential note, leaps spanning an octave or more
Parallel Organum
Principal voice with a addition voice moving at a 5th below
Mixed and Oblique Organum
Used to avoid tritones in the voice below the Principal
Free Organum
Improvised parts – within limitations written in treatise
Florid Organum
Tenor voice (5th below) keeps the principal melody while the upper voice sings note groups
Discant Style
Tenor and Principal Voice moving at the same rate with 1-3 notes in the upper voice per note in the tenor.
Duplum
The upper voice (like in Viderunt omnes) carrying out melismas over a tenor drone. In Organum
Triplum
a 3-voice organum (on and on with more voices)
Motet
Took over after Organum and conductus fell out of fashion
(Notre Dame)
Clausulae
A clause; self-contain part of the Organum
Perotinus
Guy who did a lot of organum (polyphony)
Leoninus
Poetic paraphrases of several books of the Bible
Voice exchange
voices trade phrases, emphasizing dissonances before resolving to the 5th and octave above the tenor
cantus firmes
Motet tenor (preexisting melody)