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30 Cards in this Set
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what is a double leading tone cadence?
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When both upper voices resolve up (usually leading tone resolves to tonic, and #11 resolves up to 5)
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what is a Landini cadence?
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also called an "under-third cadence", the tenor descends by step, teh upper voice decorates its ascent by first desending to the lower neighbor and then skipping up a third.
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What is a Trobairitz?
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troubadors, or poet-composers in southern france
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what is musica ficta?
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chromatic alterations, usually lowering or raising notes by a semitone, to avoid the tritone, to make a smoother melodic line, or just to make "sweeter sounding harmony"
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Define Motet
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a vocal piece of music that grew out of the clausulae sections in organum
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What type of medieval piece of music was characterized by having multiple texts, often in different languages?
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Motet
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What type of medieval piece used pre-existing "tenor" usually from Gregorian Chant?
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Medieval Motet
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What type of piece used 5ths and 8ves on strong beats, with an increase in other intervals between them?
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medieval motet
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What is a "song"
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composition for solo voice
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what is the term for an italian "song"
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canzona
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what is the term for a french song?
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chanson
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what is the term for a german song?
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Lied
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What were some characteristics of medieval songs?
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- simple, often repetitive structure
-modal -simple rhythm -primarily syllabic text setting -monophonic -often strophic text setting |
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What were Goliards?
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Wandering Clerics, who traveled from town to town singing songs in Latin
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Who were trouveres and troubadours?
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poet-composers working in south and north of france, respectively
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Who were Jongleurs?
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french for entertainers who traveled and performed the works of troubadours and trouveres
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What were Chansonniers?
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songbooks which contain the music of troubadours and trouveres.
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What was a Pastourelle?
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One of the most popular types of troubador songs, a dramatic ballad about a knight's love for a shepherdess.
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What was one of the most famous Pastourelle and who wrote it?
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Jeu de Robin et de Marion (the play of robin and marion) by Adam de la Halle, the last of the greatest of the trouveres.
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What is a minnesinger?
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a poet-composer working in Germany
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what was a spilleute?
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german equivalent of jongluers (traveling entertainers, performing works of minnesingers)
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What is a consort?
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an ensemble to perform instrumental music.
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What was a family of instruments?
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The same instrument, but in different sizes.
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What was a whole consort?
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An ensemble playing instruments from the same family (of instruments)
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What is a mixed consort or broken consort?
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An ensemble with instruments from different families of instruments (different kinds of instruments, not just different sizes of the same kind of instrument)
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What is Estampie?
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dance music
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What were two plucked stringed instruments of the medieval period?
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harp and lute
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what type of instrument is a hurdy gurdy?
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bowed string
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what type of instrument is a krumhorn?
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wind
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what type of instrument is a shawm?
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wind
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