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What are the general features of English music in the early 15th century? |
Frequent use of harmonic thirds and sixths, often in parallel motions
Preferences for -simple melodies -regular phrasing -syllabic text-setting -homorhythmic textures |
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What is Faburden? |
An English practice of improvised polyphony |
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What are the stylistic characteristics of faburden? |
-middle voice sings the original chant -top voice sings parallel perfect fourths above middle voice -bottom voice sings parallel thirds below the middle voice. |
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Describe the formal organization of the early 15th century English carol |
burden - verse |
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What geographical area is meant by the term "Burgundian"? |
The lands controlled by the Dukes of Burgundy, mostly in northwestern France and the Low Countries. |
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What is meant by "Burgundian Music"? |
music composed for or at the Burgundian Court in the 15th century. |
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What are the four major genres of Burgundian music, and what languages are associated with each? |
Chanson - French Mass, Magnificat, Motet - Latin |
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Which composed is most closely associated with the English sound that traveled to the European continent at the beginning of the Renaissance? |
John Dunstable |
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What was the significance of the tune "L'homme arme" in 15th century music? |
it was the tune most frequently used as a cantus firmus in Mass Ordinary settings. |
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Who were the two most important composers associated with the Burgundian court? |
Du Fay and Binchois |
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What are the dates associated with the following? |
1390-1453 John Dunstable 1397-1474 Guillaume Dufay 1400-1460 Gilles Binchois 1417 end of Papal Schism 1453 Eastern roman empire falls to Islamic Ottoman Turks 1477 Death of Charles the Bold at the battle of nancy, and end of the duchy of Burgundy |
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In what way did the Hundred Years' War influence music? |
English composers spent time in France |
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the Contenance angloise refers to.... |
An english style of polyphony |
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in England, most composition in the early 15th century was... |
polyphony on Latin texts |
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Cantilena is best defined as.... |
a freely composed, homorhythmic piece. |
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The Old Hall manuscript contains.... |
sacred polyphony, including works of Dunstable. |
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The form which contains a burden is the.... |
carol. |
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By the first half of the 15th century, the word motet was applied to.... |
any polyphonic composition on a sacred Latin text other than the Ordinary of the Mass. |
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What is not a polyphonic genre Dunstable used? |
Cantus-firmus masses |
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The duchy of Burgundy... |
occupied vast tracts of land and rivaled the kingdom of France in influence. |
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The duke of Burgundy employed.... |
singers for his chapel, organists, wind instrument players, and string instrumentalists. |
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The language used for secular song texts composed in the Burgundian style was.... |
French. |
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Four-voice texture as developed in the fifteenth century consisted of.... |
superius, contratenor, altus, tenor, contratenor bassus |
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Du fay's career was spent.... |
divided between secular posts in Italy and a cathedral post in Cambrai. |
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The Burgundian chanson was usually composed in which forms? |
rondeau or ballade |
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Fauxbourdon is best defined as.... |
two composed voices with an improvised third voice, creating 6-3 chords |
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Isorhythmic motets were ____________________ in the early 15th century. |
considered old-fashioned but composed in honor of special events. |
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A mass in which each movement is based on a pre-existing chant for that text is called.... |
plainsong mass |
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A mass that quotes more than one voice of a pre-existing polyphonic work is called.... |
imitation mass |
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A mass in which all movements are based on the same pre-existing melody is called.... |
cantus-firmus mass. |
