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50 Cards in this Set
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Anthem
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English version of a motet
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Estampie
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Medieval dance
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Feudalism
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Medieval economic system
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Galliard
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Renaissance
quick dance in triple meter |
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Harpsichord
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Renaissance version of a keyboard
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Humanism
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Renaissance
dominant intellectual movement focused on human life and accomplishments reclaiming the physical not concerned with the after life |
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Lute
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song for solo voice and lute
secular renaissance homophonic texture |
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Madrigal
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secular renaissance
vocal after dinner entertainment originated in Italy written to a poem about love homophonic and polyphonic |
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Mass
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polyphonic choral composition made up of 5 sections
sacred renaissance highlight of the liturgical day |
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5 sections of the mass
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Kyrie
Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei |
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Mass Ordinary
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texts that remain the same day to day throughout the church year
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Mass Proper
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text changes according to the day
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Motet
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sacred renaissance
not part of the mass polyphonic |
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Office
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held 7 times a day
no communion chant psalms and canticles |
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Organum
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medieval music consisting of gregorian chant and one or more additional voice
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Plainsong
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gregorian chant
medieval melodies set to sacred latin texts and sung without accompaniment monophonic no meter |
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Renaissance
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"rebirth"
reclaiming of science, education, and the arts |
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Text Painting
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secular renaissance music
musical illustration of the text |
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Troubadours
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medieval
wrote and sung songs about courtly love wrote music and poetry with rhyme |
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Imitation
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musical phrase that gets repeated
sacred renaissance |
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Monophonic
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single melodic line with no accompaniment
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Polyphonic
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simultaneous performance of 2 or more melodic lines or equal importance
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Homophonic
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one main melodic line with chord accompaniment
all voices in the same rhythm |
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Counterpoint
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combining several melodic lines into a meaningful whole
polyphonic |
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Unison
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performance of a single melodic line at the same pitch by more than one instrument or voice
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Drone
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one or more long, sustained tone accompanying a melody
medieval |
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Melismatic
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one syllable gets many notes
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Syllabic
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one syllable to every not
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Pavane
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renaissance
slow dance in double time |
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Musical Texture
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how many different layers of sound are heard at once
what kind of layers they are how they are related |
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Middle Ages
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450-1450
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Renaissance
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1450-1600
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Dowland
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1563-1626
Secular Renaissance composer known for lute songs |
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Meelkes
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1575-1623
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Palestrina
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1525-1594
Sacred music in the Renaissance composition is said to have saved polyphonic masses in the catholic church wrote more masses than anyone else |
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Josquin de Prez
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1440-1521
strongly influenced other composers sacred music in the renaissance |
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Machaut
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1330-1377
Medieval 1. composes as much sacred as secular music 2. saw the mass as a unified idea 3. had all music written down and compiled in 1 volume |
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Gesualdo
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1566-1613
Sacred Renaissance wrote chromatic madrigals |
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Hildegard of Bingen
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1098-1179
Medieval writer, philosopher, theologian Nun wrote the first morality play disagreed with the church superiors |
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Pope Gregory
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Medieval
reorganized the catholic liturgy gregorian chant was named after him |
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Thomas Tallis
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1505-1585
Renaissance |
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Thomas Tomkins
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1572-1656
Renaissance |
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Flow My Tears
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Dowland
Secular Renaissance Lute Song |
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As Vesta was Descending
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Meelkes
Secular Renaissance Madrigal written to honor Queen Elizabeth I taken from The Triumphs of Oriana |
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Pope Marcellus Mass
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Palestrina
Sacred Renaissance Kyrie saved polyphonic masses in the catholic church |
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Ave Maria
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Josquin de Prez
Sacred Renaissance latin prayer to the virgin |
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Notre Dame Mass
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Machaut
Medieval Agnus Dei polyphonic and organum and gregorian chant |
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If Ye Love Me
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Thomas Tallis
Sacred Renaissance Polyphonic Anthem |
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Paven and Galliard
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Thomas Tomkins
Secular Renaissance |
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Thomas Morley
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best known madrigal composer
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