Highlights Flashcards
Stability and Law-abiding civilizations
-farming w/o fear
-citizens can travel
-trade links regions
-buildings built
-schools
-literacy more common
England’s founding epic poem
Beowulf
Charlemagne’s grandpa
Charles Martel
What marked the final split between Rome and Constantinople / solidification of papal alliance with the West
When Charlemagne became Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (Christmas Day 800)
Trivium
grammar, rhetoric, dialect
Quadrium
arithmetic, geometry, music
Mass Ordinary know 5 in order
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Credo
- Sanctus
- Agnus Dei
Which mass ordinary is about mercy in Greek?
Kyrie
Which mass ordinary is about glory to God
Gloria
Which mass ordinary is about the Nicean Creed of the Trinity / basic beliefs?
Credo
Which mass ordinary is about holiness?
Sanctus
Which mass ordinary is about the Lamb of God and mercy
Agnus Dei
Who was a monk and medieval theorist that used hand for singing (Guidonian hand)?
Guido d’Arezzo
Charlemagne’s father
Pepin the Short
Charlemagne’s son
Louis the Pious
What did the Treaty of Verdun do?
Split the Holy Roman Empire among three sons (Charles the Bald, Louis the German, and Lothair); beginning of modern country boundaries
Symbols of the evangelists in order
Matthew: winged man
Mark: winged lion
Luke: winged ox
John: winged eagle
What does atmospheric perspective mean?
Illusions of 3D
What is Utrecht Psalter known for
Key Carolingian artist, lines, organ, Jesus with nimbus
Vows of Benedictine (what do monks promise to do)?
-obedience
-chastity
-stability
Hildegard
created troping (add words/music to chant) 77 chants composed
Progression of chant to Shakespeare
chant > troupe > liturgical drama > morality play > Shakespeare
miracle plays
Jesus and Mary
mystery plays
Bible
Who was a traveling and begging monk (mendicant) that was also a troubador AND the FIRST italian poet to write in the vernacular
St. Francis
the effort to understand the mysteries of God through logic and metaphysical studies
Scholastacism
What modern work did theWho were traveling students, drunk, naughty monks?
Goliard monks
What modern work did the Goliardic verse influence
“O Fortuna” by Carloff
Who was one of the first to develop Scholastacism and wrote “Sic et non”
Peter Abelard
Thomas Aquinas
-did NOT write in the vernacular
-master of dialectic (developed process of thesis > antithesis > analysis > synthesis)
who coined the phrase “The Dark Ages”
Petrarch
Who wrote “My Secret”
Petrarch
Who was the Father of Humanism, wrote sonnets, and was the start f the Reanaissance
Petrarch
literary device: elaborate and surprising comparison between 2 apparently different things
conceit
literary device: detailed praise or blame
Blason
literary device: human qualities applied to an inanimate object
personification
Wrote “The Decameron”
Boccaccio
Did Boccacccio write in the vernacular
YES
greatest English poet of the century who wrote the Canterbury tales
Chauncer
Chaucer’s death in 1400 marked the end of
the medieval period
Did Chauncer write in the vernacular?
yes
Did Dante write in the vernacular
yes
Did Thomas Equinas write in the vernacular?
no
Who invented Ars Nova Musicae and said that modern music was better than old music
Phillippe de Vitry
Mensural notation
used from 1260-1600
-Phillipe de Vitry
-symbols similar to whole/half/quarter
When you have a repeated single melody which you repeat and apply a random rhythm to
Isorhythm
Who was a poet/musician who wrote in fixed forms and was the first composer to write in 4 parts with TOP voice carrying the melody
Guillaume de Mauchaut
Messe de Notre Dame
-most famous Mauchaut
-four part mass, entire ordinary
Who was a famous organist/organ builder
Landini
Cimabue taught
Giotto
Duccio taught
Martini
polyptech
many panels
predella
panel at the bottom
nimbus
halos
Giotto’s frescoes in Assissi crumbled because of
an earthquake
