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What is timbre?
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the distincitve quality of music
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What is texture?
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the number and relation of lines in a piece of music
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What is monophony?
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music with one melodic line
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What is a strophic song?
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a song with the same music for each verse
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What is melody?
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a succession of musical tones
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what is homophony?
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music in which one voice has the melody, performed with a chordal accompaniment
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what is rythm?
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a regular pattern of beats and emphasis
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what is polyphono?
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music with two or more melodic lines
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what is binary form?
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music with two sections
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what does the term dynamics mean?
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how loud or soft the music is
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a violin is a..?
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string instrument
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a tuba is..?
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a brass instrument
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a viola is a..?
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a string instrument
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A xylophone is a..?
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percussion instrument
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a harpsichord is..?
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a keyboard instrument
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a guitar is a..?
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string instrument
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a flute is a..?
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woodwind instrument
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a trumpet is a..?
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brass instrument
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an oboe is an..?
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woodwind instrument
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an organ is a..?
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keyboard instrument
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Guillaume Dufay..?
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wrote several complete Masses, and is one of the first to use secular melodies
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a motet is a..?
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polyphonic form
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Leonin composed...
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2 part organum
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Organum is...
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polyphonic
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The most important type of music during the Medieval period?
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Vocal
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Gregorian chant (plainchant) is...
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monophonic
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How much secular power did the Christian church have during the medieval period?
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a great deal - they owned lots of lands and even collected taxes
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Who were the troubadours and trouveres?
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French poet-musicians
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The sections of the Ordinary of the Mass?
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never change, regardless of the day
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Guillaume de Machaut is best remembered for what?
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writing the first complete polyphonic Mass
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Who were the Muses?
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the goddesses responsible for inspiring artists
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What was the initial reaction of Rome to the early Christian church?
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it was accepted after many years of hostility and strife
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What was the role of music in ancient Greece?
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very important - taught in their schools and used in their religious ceremonies
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The Doctrine of Ethos was...
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the effect that music had on the moral character of the listener
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How did the fall of Rome affect Western Civilization?
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it caused great strife and difficulty for most of Europe
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What is Martin Luther famous for?
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Starting the Reformation
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Tomas Luis de Victoria
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is a great composer of emotionally charged sacred music
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The concept of humanism was very important in the Renaissance. What is it?
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the belief that people have the capacity to shape their world in a positive way
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John Dowland wrote primarily for which instruments?
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lute and voice
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Johannes Ockeghem...
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avoided cadences, thereby extending the melodic lines
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Palestrina's music...
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embodied the ideals of the Council of Trent
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In the late 1500's, Thomas Morley was a very popular composer of…
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English madrigals
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Why was music printing important?
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It allowed musical trends and ideas to be exchanged more easily
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Text painting is...
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the imitation in the music of the meaning of the words
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