| Definition | Term | Example Pieces |
| The language of a particular area, aka not latin. | |
| What you tap your foot to. | |
| A person whose job it is to 'hold' notes for a long period of time, hence the name. | |
| The beginning of homophonic texture being used. Its two pioneers were Dufay and Dunstable | |
| A genre of music in which two different poems of identical rhythms overlap one another. | |
| A new movement in which rhythm could be notated and poetic skill was showcased. | |
| A form with repeated verses. | |
| A secular composition set to a one-stanza poem. | |
| A single line of music. | |
| A style of writing music in which the words were sung in ways that matched the rhythms and melodies of speech. | |
| A religious five section composition. | |
| A piece with a descriptive title. | |
| A genre in which a soloist performs virtuostically alongside an orchestra. | |
| When the music does what the words say | |
| A genre of music in which traditional plainchant melody is stretched out and overlaid with a counterpoint. This is the earliest kind of polyphony. | |
| A composition or passage in which a melody is imitated by one or more voices at fixed intervals of pitch and time. | |
| Unaccompanied singing, perhaps in a chapel. | |
| Music where each part is played by only one instrument. This was prominent in households. | |
| Monophonic, Religious, A capella songs named after a pope. | |
| A relatively short composition to Latin words made up of short sections in homophony and imitative polyphony. Sometimes an addition to the mass | |
| A group of instruments, one that plays chords, another that plays melody. | |