Music In The Middle Ages Pt. 2 And Summer Is Icumen In (Pg. 55-62)

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Square notation

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these boxy shapes replaced the lines and dots that characterized early neumes

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long note

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a square with a tail

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breve note ("brief note")

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a square without a tail

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rhythmic modes

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The 6 possible combinations of longs and breves are called

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Ars Antiqua

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Music composed using longs and breves

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Polyphony

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Also called "counterpoint," early experiments with this musical technique involve simultaneous melodies in different registers.

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Parallel organum

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What is the name from earliest form of polyphony that was very simple and didn't require notation.

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Parallel organum

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This form of polyphony involved a principle voice and a second line that moved in parallel motion with original chant.

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free organum (florid organum)

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This organum involved voices in independent rhythms, not just independent pitches.

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Oblique organum

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This form of organum sometimes require notation and involved the preexisting chant and the second "organal" layer moving in and out of unison.

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Anonymous 4 and University of Paris

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Information about polyphony survived on lecture notes taken by ___________ at _________.

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Benedictine Abbey and Reading, England

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Sumer is Icumen In was copied into a manuscript kept in the ________ ______ near _____________, ______________.

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2 and 6

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Sumer is Icumen In contains ____ layers of musical activity and employs ____ voices.

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Rondellus

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A polyphonic genre, also called the "voice-exchange," for two or more voices that was popular in the middle ages.

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Rondellus

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The lower layer of "Sumer is Icumen In" is a ____________.

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Compline and Regina caeli laetare

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The rondellus melody is derived from a chant for the __________ office service called ______ _______ _____.

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Reading Rota

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The "_______ _______"is the earliest know canon this the Western World.

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Canon

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The upper layer of "Sumer is Icumen In" is a _________.

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Rota

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The English term for canon in the Middle ages was...

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Plus

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The large "____" symbol indicates when the first sing has reached the point in the canon where the second singer may begin.

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Behold, Christian

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The original manuscript of "Sumer is Icumen In" includes a second poem called "_______, _______." (answer the English translation)

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Mensuration (measurement) system

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In the fourteenth century, the use of a __________ __________, such as the symbol C for common time, introduced a new way of measuring time.

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Ars Nova (New Art)

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The era of music that employed independent rhythms, text, and occasionally languages.

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Guillaume de Machaut

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The most outstanding composer from Ars Nova.

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9th century

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Organs were not introduced to the church until the ____ ________.

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Estampie

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A medieval stamping dance

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Loud and soft

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Instruments in the Middle Ages were sorted into ________ and _______ categories.

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Chansons

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French songs about love, military prowess, and chivalry.

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troubadours

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Medieval artist in the south of france were know as _________.

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trouveres

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Medieval artist in the north of france were know as _________.

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King Richard the Lionheart

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English king who never learned English and was a trouveres.

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Ja nus hons pris (No Man Who's Imprisoned, 1193)

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The only song composed by King Richard that survived