Medieval - Composers/Schools

Question 1

Adam de la Halle

Answer 1

The first vernacular poet-composer whose complete works were collected in a manuscript.

Composed the most famous narrative pastoral song Jeu de Robin et de Marion.

Question 2

Bernart de Ventadorn

Answer 2

One of the best-known and most influential troubadours.

Serviced Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Brought the troubadour tradition to the north and inspired the development of trouvère songs.

Question 3

Guido d’Arezzo

Answer 3

Wrote the widely read treatise Micrologus, a practical guide for singers that covers notes, intervals, the eight modes, melodic composition, and improvised polyphony.

Question 4

Hans Sachs

Answer 4

The best-known Meistersinger who composed thousands of poems.

Question 5

Jongleurs

Answer 5

Lower-class itinerant musicians who traveled alone or in groups, earning a precarious living by performing tricks, telling stories, and singing or playing instruments.

Question 6

Meistersinger

Answer 6

Urban merchants and artisans who pursued music as an avocation and formed guilds for composing songs according to strict rules and singing them in public concerts and competitions.

Question 7

Minnesinger

Answer 7

German knightly poet-musicians who sang Minnelieder (love songs) which emphasized faithfulness, duty, and service to the king/church.

Question 8

Notker Balbulus

Answer 8

The most famous early writer of sequence texts.

Question 9

Troubadours

Answer 9

Poet-composers in southern France whose language was Occitan.

Question 10

Trouveres

Answer 10

Poet-composers in northern France whose language was Old French.