Genres Chapter 12-15

Front 1

Plainchant
-What is its texture
-What context is it performed in
-What language is it spoken in

Back 1

Monophonic in texture
-Spoken in latin
-Sacred music
-Served as the foundation for the motet, mass, and Organuum

Front 2

Mass
-Divided into two categories, which were
-Spoken in which language
-What genre is central to the mass?

Back 2

Ordinary and Mass
-Ordinary was performed everyday
-Mass was performed during different feasts
-Reenactment of Christs death
-Polyphonic and Monophonic

Front 3

Organuum
-What was its texture
-What context was it performed in
-What language was it performed in
-Based on what
-First music to use which concept, and first to create which texture

Back 3

-The first polyphonic music
-Sacred context
-Performed in latin
-Constructed around preexisting chants, this composition technique was called Cantus Firmus

Front 4

Motet
-How was it performed in medieval times
-What was its context
-What language was it spoken in
-What was its texture

Back 4

-Most important form of early polyphonic music
-Constructed on a preexisting chant (Cantus Firmus)

Front 5

Chanson
-What were the textures
-What language was it spoken in
-What context was it played in
-What was the text focused on

Back 5

-Chansons were polyphonic,
-text focused on idealized love and values of idealized love and chivelery
-Secular Context
Spoken in the vernacular as well as latin

Front 6

Madrigal
-What was the music used to enhance?
-What was the context it was played in
-Where was it played

Back 6

-The music was used to enhance the poetry, or text
-The texture was mostly polyphonic, with the use of instruments
-It was also played in homes