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Music Hist and Lit I
Who, When, Where, What Category
Question | Answer |
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Boethius | De Institution musica, 480-524, most revered authority on music in the middle ages |
Hildegard of Bingen | 1098-1179, one of the first female composers, Ordo Virtutum (sacred music drama), Bingen (found own convent) |
Goliards | Songs from wandering students and clerics, song topics range form religion and morality to drinking, love, and pleasures, 10th-13th century |
Jongleurs | Traveled alone or in groups, earned a living by performing tricks/telling stories/singing/playing instruments |
Trouveres | Old French, Northern France, Adam De La Halle-Robins m'aime (1284) |
Troubadours | Southern France, Comtessa de Dia-A Chantar, 12th/13th century |
Guido of Arezzo | Micrologus (1025-1028)-organum in a range of choices using oblique and parallel motion, |
Leonin | (1150-1201),Viderunt Omnes (organum duplum), Paris |
Perotin | (late 12th and early 13th centuries), Viderunt Omnes (organum quadruplum), France |
Giotto | (1266-1337), Florentine Painter, broke away from Byzantine Style, more naturalistic representation |
De Vitry | (1291-1361), Ars Nova, Motet composer, In arboris/Tuba sacre fidei/Virgo sum |
Marchaut | (1300-1377), France, French Ars Nova, La Messe de Nostre Dame |
Landini | (1325-1397), Italy, blind composer and master of many instruments (especially organetto), Landini cadence, Ballata composer, Non avra ma pieta |
Glareanus | (1488-1563), Swiss theorist, wrote Dodekachordon (12 string lyre, 1547), added 4 new modes to the original 8 |
Petrucci | (1466-1539), Venice, first collection of polyphonic music printed entirely from movable type |
Attaingnant | (1494-1551), Paris, printing from a single impression, more efficient and less costly than Petrucci's method or printing |
Dustable | (1390-1453), England, mathematician/astronomer/musician, Quam Pulchra Es |
Tinctoris | (1435-1511), Liber de arte contrapuncti (A Book on the Art of Counterpoint) |
DuFay | (1397-1474), France/Italy/Germany, leading composer of his time, Resvellies Vous (ballade), Missa Se La face ay pale (Cantus-firmus mass) |
Ockeghem | (1420-1497), France, singer/composer, Missa De plus en plus (Cantus-firmus mass) |