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Melodies set to sacred Latin texts, sung without accompaniment: official music of the Roman Catholic Church |
Gregorian Chant |
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Long sustained tone or tones accompanying a melody: |
Drone |
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Performance of two or more different melodic lines : |
polyphonic texture |
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Scales containing seven tones: |
church modes |
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Latin meaning to compose: |
trobar
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A knightly ranked composer of folk songs mostly about love: |
troubadours
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Music that is not religious: |
secular
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Serie of wars in which Christians tried to recover the Holy City of Jerusalem from the Muslims: |
Crusades |
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Prayer for mercy and peace: |
Agnus Dei
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An Italian poetic musical form: |
Ballata
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Roman Catholic Church texts that remain the same from day to day throughout most of the year: |
mass ordinary
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Melody-often a Gregorian chant-used as the basis of a polyphonic composition: |
Cantus firmus
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A bowed string instrument:
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rebec
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Performed music; no civil rights; lowest on the social level: |
minstrel |
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A medieval dance: |
estampie
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Single melodic line without accompaniment: |
monophonic
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Plucked or struck string instrument
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psaltery
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The Mass Ordinary Consists of: |
Agnus Dei |
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English Translation of: |
Lamb of God |
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English Translation of: |
Have Mercy on Us
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English Translation of: |
Grant us Peace
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English Translation For: |
Lord Have Mercy
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Sanctus:
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Holy
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Christe Eleison:
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Christ Have Mercy
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Musician and poet |
Guillaume de Machaut |
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First known composer to write music with more than two voices |
Perotin
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Medieval polyphony that consisits of Gregorian chant and one or more additonal melodic lines |
Organum
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Long, sustained tone or tones accompanying a melody
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Drone
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