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Gregorian chant
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official music of the roman catholic church, consists of melody set to sacred latin texts and sung without accompaniment
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church modes
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seven sounds of Gregorian chant results partly from the unfamiliar scales used
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drone
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consists of one or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody
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estampie
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a medieval dance, one of the earliest surviving forms of instrumental music
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organum
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medieval music that consists of Gregorian Chant and one or more additional melodic lines, emerged between 900-1200 as a polyphonic chant
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cantus firmus
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(Fixed Melody) a chant that is used as the basis for polyphony
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ballata
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higher and the lower vocal melodies generally move step by step and have one tone sung on a single syllable of text. follows the A BB AA form
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mass ordinary
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consists of 5 texts that remain the same from day to day, thruout the church year
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musical form that orginiated as a dance song
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ballata
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sung to two musically similar units, where...
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Ballata: A (longer) and B (shorter)
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name the mass ordinary
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1.) kyrie
2.) Gloria 3.) Credo 4.) Sanctus 5.) Agnus Dei |
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polychoral motet
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motets for two or more choirs and group of instruments
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Giovanni Gabrieli is known for
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polychoral motet
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Venetian school consisted of what directors
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Adrian Willaert
Andrea Gabrieli Giovanni Gabrieli |
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Lute
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plucked string instrument with a body shaped like half pear
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Ballett otherwise known as...
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Fa-La
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Fa-La
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a simpler type of secular music
noted for its refrain, of a stanzaic poem |
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Ballett has what texture
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homophonic
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Madrigal
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secular music for several solo voices set to a short poem
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a _____like a motet combines homophonic and polyphonic textures
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Madrigal
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the Madrigal shares what types of textures
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homophonic and polyphonic
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this Renaissance style features word painting.
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madrigal
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the madrigal uses what more often
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Unusual Harmonies
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Mass could be discribed as...
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polyphonic choral compositionmade up of 5 sections
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motet
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a polyphonic choral work set to a sacred latin text other than the ordinary
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sacred choir latin text presented in polyphony
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Motet
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a cappella
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unaccompanied choral music
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word painting
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musical representations of specific poetic images
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