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74 Cards in this Set
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A capella
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Choral Music without instrumental accompaniment
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Aria
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Song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment
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Baroque
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*look at notes
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Basso Continuo
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Baroque accompaniment made up of a bass part ussually played by two instruments: a keyboard plus a low melodic instrument
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Beat
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Regular, recurrent pulsation that dvides music into equal units of time
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Camerata
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In Italian, fellowship or society; a group of nobles, poets, and composers who began to meet regularly in Florence around 1575 and whose musical discussions prepared the way for the beginning of opera.
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Cantata
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Composition in several movements, ussually written for chorus, one or more vocal soloists, and instrumental ensemble. The church cantata for the Lutheran service in Germany during the baroque period often includes chorales.
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Cantus Firmus
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*see notes
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Chorale
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Hymn tune sung to a German religious text.
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Chorale Prelude
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Short composition for organ, based on a hymn tune and often used to remind the congregation of the melody before the hymn is sung.
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Chord
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Combination of three or more tones sounded at once
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Concerto
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Extended composition for instrumental soloist and orchestra, ussually in three movements: (1)fast, (2)slow, (3)fast
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Concerto Grosso
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Composition for several instrumental soloists and small orchestra; common in late baroque music.
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Consort
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*see notes
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Counterpoint
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Tecnique of combining two or more melodic lines into a meaningful whole
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Crescendo/ Decrescendo
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Gradually louder/ Gradually softer
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Dissonance/ Consonance
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Tone combination that is unstable and tense
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Dynamics
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Degrees of loudness or softness in music
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Fugue
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Polyphonic composition based on one main theme, or subject.
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Harmony
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How chords are constructed and how they follow eachother.
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Harpsichord
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Keyboard instrument, widely used from 1500 to 1775, whose sound is produced by plectra which pluck its wied strings. The Harpsichord was revived uring the twentieth century.
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Improvisation
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Creation of music at the same time as it is performed.
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Key(Tonality)
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Central note, scale, and chord within a piece, in relationship to which all the other tones in the composition are heard.
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Libretto
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Text of an opera
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Madrigal
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Composition for several voices set to a short secular poem, ussually about love, combining homophonic and polyphonic textures and often using word painting; common in Renaissance music.
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Mass
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Sacred choral compositin made up of five(5) sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
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Proper
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* See notes
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Mass Ordinary
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Roman Catholic church texts that remain the same from day to day throughout most of the year: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo,Sanctus, and Agnus Dei.
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Requiem
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Mass for the dead
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Medieval Period
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*See notes
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Melody/ tune
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Series of single tones that add up to a recognizable whole
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Meter
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Organization of beats into regular groups
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Modes
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*See notes
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Monophonic
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Single melodic line without accompaniment
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Homophonic
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Term describing music in which one main melody is accompanied by chords
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polyphonic
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Performance of two or more melodic lines of relatively equal interest at the same time.
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Motet
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Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred Latin text other than that of the mass; one of the two main forms of sacred Renaissance musc.
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Motive
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Fragment of a theme, or short musical idea that is dweveloped within a composition.
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Opera
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Drama that is sung to orchestral accompaniment, usually a large-scale composition involving vocal soloists, chorus, orcestra, costumes, and scenery.
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Oratorio
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Large-scale composition for chorus, vocal soloists, and orchestra, ussually set to narrative text, but without acting, scenery, or costumes; often based on biblical stories.
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Orchesta
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*See notes
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Organum
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Medieval polyphony that consists of gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lines
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Pitch
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Relative highness or lowness of a sound
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Plainsong
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*see notes
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Plainchant
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Gregorian chant
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Melodies set to sacred Latin texts, sung without accompaniment; Gregorian chant was the official music of the Roman Catholic church.
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Recitative
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Vocal line in an opera, oratorio, or cantata that imitates the rhythms and pitch fluctuations of speech, often serving to lead into an aria.
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Recorder
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Renaissance
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Rhythm
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Ritornello
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Sonata
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String
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Brass
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Woodwind
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Percussion
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Suite
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Syncopation
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Tempo
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Terraced dynamcs
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Texture
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Theme
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Timbre
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Troubadours
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Trouveres
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Meistersingers
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Minnesingers
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Goliards
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Jongluers
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Unison
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Word Painting
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Alleluia: Vidimus Stellam
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o Jubilant Gregorian Chant from the "Mass for Epiphany"
o Title means (We have seen his star) o Latinized for of Hebrew "hallelujah" o Monophonic o ABA form o Most outstanding element – melody o Voices in unison o Timbre is male |
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Hildegard:O Succesores
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o Monophonic
o Female timbre o Wide pitch range o Latin |
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Machaut: 'Agnus Dei' from Notre Dame Mass
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o Mid-14th Century
o ABA form o Polyphonic |
