| A | B |
|---|
| A Cappella | unaccompanied choral singing |
| Chant | melody sung without accompaniment |
| Church Modes | scales consisting of seven different tones, whose patterns are different from the major and minor scales |
| Jongleurs | wandering minstrels of the Middle Ages |
| Lute | plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half a pear |
| Mass Ordinary | text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass that remain the same each day |
| Mass Proper | text portions of the Roman Catholic Mass that change from day to day |
| Motet | polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text |
| Organum | medieval music consisting of Gregorian chant and one or more additional lines |
| Passamezzo | stately dance in duple meter |
| Trouveres | poet-musicians of the French nobility |
| Viol | family of bowed string instruments |
| Word Painting | musical representation of specific poetic images |
