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Fauxbourdon
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False bass; un-notated line that runs parallel to top of two notated lines
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Martin Luther
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Lutheran Reformation Leader
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Jean Calvin
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First to break from Luther; established own denomination; believed music must be carefully guarded
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Plainsong Mass
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Each movement is based on a different chant (Kyrie- Kyrie, Gloria- Gloria, etc); Missa sine nomine- Mass without a Name
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Imitation/Parody Mass
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Movements are based on polyphonic model (motet, madrigal); all voices may be re-worked or borrowed
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Paraphrase Mass
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Borrowed one melodic idea but freely elaborated
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Head Motive
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Thematic idea that occurs at the beginning of a movement or work and returns prominently throughout the course of the music that follows
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English Guise
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Homophonic texture
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Chanson
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courtly love subject matter; polyphonic; generally on the beat; Rondeau form
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Parisian Chanson
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Influenced by Italian frottola; not necessarily composed in paris; either one voice per part or a solo voice with lute
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Frottola
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Secular Italian vocal genre of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. the texture tends to be chordal and the texts are often lighthearted, comic, or ironic
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Madrigal
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14th century text usually consisting of two or three strophes, each with three lines, plus a two-line ritornello
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Full anthem
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Unaccompanied chorus in contrapuntal style
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Verse anthem
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One or more solo voices with organ or violin accompaniment with brief alternating passages for chorus
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Council of trent
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Eliminated many plainchants; Believe sacred music's function was to serve text and discouraged the use of secular music
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Chorale
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A hymn either in a harmonized form or a melody alone
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Mannerism
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Describes an artistic style prevalent in the works of certain artists that emphasized unusual degrees of distortion and exaggeration.
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Triple impression printing
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Form of music printing
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Musica Transalpina
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certain kinds of music reserved for connoisseurs and not intended for wide-scale distribution.
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Ballett
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To dance, form of AbbaA
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Tenorlied
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Type of secular song cultivated in Germany in the 16th century in which the principal melody appears in the tenor voice, with three contrapuntal voices surrounding it.
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Italian Madrigals
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More voices, Late 16th C, Word painting to extremes, and increased in virtuosity
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Concerto dell donne
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Women's Ensemble
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Lute songs
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Strophic notation for lute and one or more voices; notated in tablature
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Functions of motets in Renaissance
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Liturgical, devotional, and Occasional
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