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37 Cards in this Set
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Loud or soft
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Dynamics
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Speed
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Tempo
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Stressed or unstressed words
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Meter
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The sonorous quality of a particular instrument, voice or combination
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tone color
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Chants used by the early Roman Catholics
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Gregorian Chants
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Unaccompanied, monophonic music, without fixed rhythm or meter
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Plainchant
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A way of reciting words to music, generally monophonic
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Chant
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A musical texture involving a single melodic line
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monophony
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without a distinct meter
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nonmetrical
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In music since the Renaissance, one of the two types of tonality, major or minor, one of several orientations of the diatonic scale.
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Medieval modes
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"Chant" with only one note
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Recitation
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A genre of plainchant usually showing a simple melodic style with very few melismas
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Antiphon
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Compiled Gregorian chants, added her own style (1098-1179)
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Hildegard of Bingen
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A type of plainchant in which successive phrases of text receive nearly identical melodic treatment
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sequence
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Continuous note held throughout a song
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drone
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a musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest
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homophony
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musical texture inwhich two or more melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously
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polyphony
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the earliest genre of medieval polyphonic music
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organum
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In vocal music, a passage of many notes sung to a single syllable
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melisma
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(usually) a sacred vocal composition. Early versions were based on fragments of Gregorian chant, two or more lines of text muddling together
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Motet
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in 14th century music, the technique of repeating the identical rhythm of each section for a composition, while the pitches are altered
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Isorhythm
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Songs written by aristocratic poet - musicians of the Middle Ages
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Troubadour Songs
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A song in several stanzas, with the same music sung for each stanza
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Strophic
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"making it up as you go"
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improvisation
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dance music of the middle ages
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estampie
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motets not intended for church service
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secular motets
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the alteration of very short melodic phrases, or single notes, between two or more voices
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hocket
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The main Roman Catholic service, or the music written for it, Sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
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mass
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The modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early Renaissance music
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paraphrase technique
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Mixed Homophony and Polyphony
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High Renaissance style
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Only vocals, no accompaniment
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A Cappella
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(1525-1594) Wrote church music, included larger choirs and more tone color
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Palestrina
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The way words are set to music. Follows natural speech patterns.
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Declamation
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Musical illustration of the meaning of a word or short verbal phrase
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Word painting
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The main secular vocal genre of the Renaissance
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Italian Madrigal
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Madrigal in English
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English Madrigal
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The combination of qualities that make a period of art, a composer, a group of works, or an individual work distinctive
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Stylization
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