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| Question | Answer |
| Gamut | Standard set of pitches used in Medieval music. Extended from the G two below middle C to the E two above. Middle C was called C ut fa sol. |
| Song | Composition for solo voice Italian Canzona French Chanson German - Lied Simple, repetative, modal. Primarily syllabic text, monophonic, often strophic text setting. |
| Goliards | Named after Bishop Golias. Wandering clerics who sang songs (1000-1200) |
| Trouveres and Troubadors | Poet and melody composers. Worked in the North and South respectively. 11th-13th century. |
| Jongleurs | Entertainers who traveled and performed the work of the troubadors. from the french word for jugglers. |
| Chansoniers | Songbooks which contained music of troubadors and trouveres. Date back to the 13 and 14th century. 2600 poems an 265 troubador melody of troubador music still remain. |
| Pastourelle | Popular type of troubadore song. Ballad of a knight's love for a shepherdess. "Jeu de Robin et de Marion" is most famous. |
| Minnesinger | German counterpart of the troubador. |
| Speilleute | German counterpart of Jongleurs |
| Consort | An ensemble to perform instrumental music. Unspecified instrumentation |
| Family | A group of the same instrument in different sizes. If they play together it was called a whole consort |
| Mixed consort | Instruments from different families playing in a consort. |
| Estampe | Earliest surviving notated dance music |
| Double Leading tone Cadence | Cadence popular in 14th and 15th centuries in which bottom voice moves down by wholestep and top up by half step in a 3rd or 6th to create a 5th or octave. |
| Landini Cadence | Decorated 6th to octave cadence in which the top voice moves down by step and then up a 3rd and the bottom voice moves down by wholestep |
| Trobairitz | Female Troubador |
| Musica Ficta | 1) Notes outside standard Gamut which included all sharps and flats except Bb 2) Raising or lowering a written note in 14th through 16th polyphony for the sake of smoother harmony or motion |
| Motet | A vocal piece of music that came from composers taking clausulae and giving them new words. Became secular pieces. Later composers wrote independent pieces but still were called motets. Multiple texts in different languages. Gregorian Chant as tenor. 5th and 8th on strong beats, other intervals between. |
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