Liturgy
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
Solmization
A system of sightsinging, a pattern of 6 notes (a hexachord)
Goliards
Earliest secular song written, named after a fictitious and scurrilous patron, Bishop
Estampie
Only instrumental music currently known of from the medieval era—sounds like dance music
Motet
Composition made from taking a section from clausula and making it into a new composition
Franconian motet
Greater differentiation between upper voices as well as from the tenor.
Rota
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.
Isorhythmic motet
Motet in which tenor lays out regularly occurring rhythm, and has recurring rhythmic or melodic patterns
Talea
Recurring rhythmic patterns
Color
Recurring melody patterns
Hocket
To hiccup, voices are in rapid succession, in which voices alternate using same talea, color, or both
Trecento
The 1300s (the fourteenth century), particularly with reference to Italian art, literature, and music of the time.
Landini Cadence
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.
Descant
English Polyphony
Troubadours
Male poet-composers from southern France *Spoke Provencal
Trobairitz
Female poet-composers from southern France *Spoke Provencal
Trouveres
Poet-composers from northern France *Spoke langue d’oil, the dialect that became modern French
Minniesingers
Poet-composers of medieval Germany who wrote monophonic songs, particularly about love, in Middle High German, generally written in church modes
Meistersingers
Tradesmen and artisans from German Colonies