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51 Cards in this Set
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music is composed for?
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an orchestra
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dates of the middle ages
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450-1450
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beginning of historical mark
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fall of the roman empire
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ending of historical mark
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the advent of the renaissance
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gregorian chant
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unaccompanied, monophonic music, without fixed rhythm or meter
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characteristics of plainchants
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nonmetrical and constructed according to one of the medieval modes
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who determined the earlh history of the church
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christian church
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pope gregory the great
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assembled all the chants for church services
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gregory's years
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540-604
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troubadours
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noble poet composer-south france
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trouveres
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noble poet composer-north france
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minnesingers
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noble poet composers-germany
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minne
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chivalric ordeal love
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jongleurs
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popular musicians of medieval period
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guido of Arezzo
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genius monk who came up with do-re-me for the notes of a scale
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4 medieval modes
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dorian-around d, phrygian- around e,lydian-around f,mixolydian-around g
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later medieval modes
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major-C
mine-A |
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recitation style
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free flowing
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3 main classes of gregorian chant
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syllabic-1 note per syllable
numatic-2-4 notes per syllable mellismatic-single syllable extending on one note |
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why do we know very little about popular music during the middle ages?
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there is no records of it
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basis for European art, pitch/note in which sounds are set
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mode
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popular music
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secular music
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church music
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sacred music
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"dawn song"
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alba
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little ascending,descending signs that were written above the word that suggesets the course
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neumes
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8 daily, religious services
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divine office
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1 note or one sound
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monophony/monophonic
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simultaneous combination of 2 or more melodies
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polyphony
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earliest type of polyphony
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organum
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organum where upper lines are given words
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motet
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"white notes" on the piano
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diatonic
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no clearly established meter, the rhythm is free
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nonmetrical
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unassuming 1-line dance pieces
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estampies
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mass for the dead
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requiem mass
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suggestive, lenghty passages in identical rhythms
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isorhythm
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single 2 note chord running continuously
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drone
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"new art" or "new technique
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ars nova
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"ancient art"
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ars antiqua
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most famous of all chivalric heroes
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Richard 1
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master of the troubadours
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Guiraut de Bornelh
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Guiraut de Bornelh years
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1165-1215
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troubadour made famous by Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine who served royalty
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Bernart de Ventadorn
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Bernart de Ventadorn years
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1134-1194
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wife of Henry2 of england who hired Ventadorn
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Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine
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led to the developmentof Gregorian chants
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Notre Dame School
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2 famous composers
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Leonin and his father Perotin
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1st master composer to come from the notre dame school
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master leonin
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follower of leonin who created organums
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Perotine "the great"
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celebrates the birth of the virgin Mary
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"Alleluia Nativitas"
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leading composer of the later medieval polyphony
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Phillippe de Vitry 1291-1361
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leading composer 1300-1377
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Guillaume de Machaut
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