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Rhythm
Controlled movement of musical in time.
String Instruments
Violin, Viola, Cello, Bass
Woodwind Instruments
Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon, Saxophone
Brass Instruments
Trumpet, French Horn, Trombone, Tuba
Melody
Succession of single tones or pitches percieved by the mind as a unity.
Range
Distance between highest and lowest tones
Contour
Overall shape of the melodic line.
Interval
Distance and relationship between two pitches
Disjunct
Disjointed or disconnected, many leaps
Conjuct
smooth connected
Harmony
Simultaneous combo of notes
Tempo
Rate of Speed
Dynamics
Degree of loudness or softness
Gregorian Chant
Specific Type of Music - Monophonic melody unmeasured vocal line - over 5000 chants nearly all unknown.
Modes
Scale or sequence of notes. Used as the bass for a musical composition.
Secular Music
along with learned music of the churches, there was also popular music performed by minstrels,
Minstrels
they provided gossip and news to the masses mostly lower class.
Ars Nova
between the middle ages and rennansaince. Started in the beginning of the 14th century.
A Cappella
Choral music performed with out instrumental accompainment.
Imitation
like a rounde- melodic idea presented in voice and then restated in another voice
Word Painting
Musical pictoralization of word from the text as an expressive device
Cantus Firmus
Fixed Melody usually very long notes often based on a fragment of Gregorian chant that served as the structural basis for a polyphonic composition.
Council of Trent
Lead the reformation; in charge of regulating every aspect of religious disicipline
Chanson
Song
Madrigals
Renaissance secular work, originating from italy for voices with or without instruments.
Meter
rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
Monophonic
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). ...
Homophonic
having a single melodic line with accompaniment
Polyphonic
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).
genre
an expressive style of music
organum
An organum is any one of a number of musical instruments which were the forerunners of the organ.
Requiem
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
Mass
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. ...
Medieval Motet
an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century
Estampie
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.
Recitative
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. ...