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36 Cards in this Set
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Rhythm
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Controlled movement of musical in time.
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String Instruments
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Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass
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Woodwind Instruments
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Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Saxophone
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Brass Instruments
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Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
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Melody
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Succession of single tones or pitches percieved by the mind as a unity.
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Range
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Distance between highest and lowest tones
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Contour
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Overall shape of the melodic line.
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Interval
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Distance and relationship between two pitches
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Disjunct
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Disjointed or disconnected, many leaps
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Conjuct
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smooth connected
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Harmony
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Simultaneous combo of notes
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Tempo
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Rate of Speed
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Dynamics
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Degree of loudness or softness
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Gregorian Chant
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Specific Type of Music - Monophonic melody unmeasured vocal line - over 5000 chants nearly all unknown.
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Modes
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Scale or sequence of notes. Used as the bass for a musical composition.
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Secular Music
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along with learned music of the churches, there was also popular music performed by minstrels,
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Minstrels
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they provided gossip and news to the masses mostly lower class.
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Ars Nova
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between the middle ages and rennansaince. Started in the beginning of the 14th century.
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A Cappella
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Choral music performed with out instrumental accompainment.
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Imitation
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like a rounde- melodic idea presented in voice and then restated in another voice
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Word Painting
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Musical pictoralization of word from the text as an expressive device
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Cantus Firmus
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Fixed Melody usually very long notes often based on a fragment of Gregorian chant that served as the structural basis for a polyphonic composition.
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Council of Trent
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Lead the reformation; in charge of regulating every aspect of religious disicipline
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Chanson
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Song
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Madrigals
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Renaissance secular work, originating from italy for voices with or without instruments.
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Meter
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rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
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Monophonic
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monophony is the simplest of textures, consisting of melody without accompanying harmony. This may be realized as just one note at a time, or with the same note duplicated at the octave (such as often when men and women sing together). ...
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Homophonic
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having a single melodic line with accompaniment
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Polyphonic
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In music, polyphony (from the Greek πολύς /po΄lis/ many and φωνή /fo΄ni/ voice) is a texture consisting of two or more independent melodic voices, as opposed to music with just one voice (monophony) or music with one dominant melodic voice accompanied by chords (homophonic).
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genre
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an expressive style of music
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organum
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An organum is any one of a number of musical instruments which were the forerunners of the organ.
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Requiem
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a song or hymn of mourning composed or performed as a memorial to a dead person
a musical setting for a Mass celebrating the dead |
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Mass
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a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the fixed portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Roman Catholic Church, the Churches of the Anglican Communion, and also the Lutheran Church) to music. ...
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Medieval Motet
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an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century
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Estampie
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The medieval dance and musical form called the estampie in French, the estampida in Occitan, and istampitta (also istanpitta or stampita) in Italian was a popular instrumental style of the 13th and 14th centuries.
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Recitative
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Recitative (also known by its Italian name "recitativo" ) is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech. ...
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