trouvere
aristocratic composer-poet of northern France
hocket
melody is divided into fragments and shared among voices
rota
canon at the unison with independent lines
cornett
wooden instrument with fingerholes & brass-type mouthpiece
clausulae
polyphonic sections of chant that were sung in discant-style
Minnesinger
German equivalent to troubadours and trouveres
shawm
double-reed instrument, similar to the oboe
chansonnier
songbook collections of troubadour and trouvere polyphony
rondellus
voice exchange
troubadour
aristocratic composer-poet of southern France
Ars cantus mensurabilis
Franco of Cologne’s treatise on notation and theory
cantiga
monophonic song of Spain in honor of the Virgin Mary
Ars Nova
de Vitry’s treatise outlining 14th c. compositional techniques
discant-style
polyphony in which voices move at essentially the same speed
carole
a medieval circle dance or the song that accompanies it
motet
polyphonic work with texts in Latin/French above a cantus firmus
goliard
wandering scholar/poets who created satirical secular songs
caudae
melismatic passage at beginning and at cadences in conductus
hurdy-gurdy
stringed instrument with drone and rotating wheel turned by crank
Ad organum faciendum
treatise outlining rules for improvising/composing free organum
La Messe de Nostre Dame
was the treatise that the Notre Dame School came up with for notation
florid organum