Enjoyment of Music - Chapter 13 (Medieval Period)
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Drunken_Musician on October 21, 2010
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music history, music terms, music appreciation
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12 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Troubadours | (f. trobairitz) Medieval poet/musicians in southern France |
| Trouvéres | Medieval poet/musicians in northern France |
| Minnesingers | Late medieval German poets/musicians |
| Jongleurs | (f. jongleuresses) Medieval wandering entertainers who played instruments, sang and danced, juggled, and performed plays |
| Ars Nova | New Art; 14th century French polyphonic musical style whose themes moved increasingly from religious to secular |
| Chanson | French monophonic or polyphonic song set to either courtly or or popular poetry |
| Rondeau | Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with courtly love texts |
| Ballade | French poetic form and chanson type of the Middle Ages and Renaissance with courtly love texts |
| Virelai | Medieval and Renaissance fixed poetic form and chanson type with French courtly texts |
| Estampie | A dance form prevalent in late medieval France, either with voice or purely instrumental |
| Strophic Form | Song structure in which the same music is repeated with every stanza (strophe) of the poem |
| Ars Antigua | Old Art; polyphonic musical style, usually French, from the period 1160-1320 |
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