Music (Medival Period) Flashcards
Medival period started _______ and ended at ________
700 and 1400
Medival period is known as
Middle Ages or dark ages
Court music is played by ___
Ministrels
Means pure and chaste, yet romantic, love of aknight for his lady
Courtly love
Name medival instrument
Lyre and crowth,harp, psaltery, cittole and cittern ,pipe and tabor,bag pipe,trumpet, portable organ, positive organ and bells
has 6 strings and is plucked near the bridge.
Lyre and crwth
built on a roughly triangular frame and its strings were made of either sheeps intestine, horse hair and metal such as brass, silver or gold.
Harp
A flat box with string made out of either sheep intestine, horse hair and metal such as brass, silver or sold
Psaltery, cittole and cittern
_______Played by blowing directly into a mouthpiece like recorder or penny whistler
Whole _____ is kind off a drum
Pipe and tabor
consisted of an animal-skin bag and a series of woods pipe.
Bagpipe
Is a straight piece of a cylindrical metal tubing running from the mouthpiece to the wide end known as bell
Turmpet
Name style and forms of medival music
Plain chant, polyphony, organun, conductus, motet
Small and can be carried with a strap while walking
Portative organ
Bigger and its pipe has the same diameter but varying length. All organs require air to be pumped through.
Positive organ
What is plain chant also called?
Gregorian chant