Music Final

Final Exam Key Terms, People, and Works

Review the following vocabulary terms for the final exam. Terms are taken from lectures on Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music.

Middle Ages Terms Middle Ages Key People

Mass Pope Gregory

Chant (Gregorian Chant) Leonin

Feudal System Perotin

Sacred Music Guillaume de Machaut

Secular Music Works

Melisma Mass of Our Lady

Vernacular

Chanson

Minstrel (goliard, jongleur, troubadour, trovere)

Organum

Ars Antiqua

Ars Nova

Motet

Renaissance Terms Renaissance Key People

Renaissance Giovanni Gabrieli

Humanism Guillaume DuFay

Cantus Firmus Josquin des Prez

Burgundian School Giovanni da Palestrina

Franco-Flemish School Martin Luther

Motet Michael Praetorious

Imitation Tielman Susato

Antiphonal Music Medici Family

Madrigal Pope Marcellus

A Cappella Renaissance Works

The Reformation L’Homme Arme Mass

Counter Reformation Pope Marcellus Mass

Council of Trent

Madrigalism

Chanson

Upperclass/Middleclass Dance (know the roles of each)

Renaissance Instruments (review all)

Opera Terms

Aria Libretto L’Orfeo Recitative Overture Claudio Monteverdi