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choral music for voice alone, without instruments
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acapella
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french for song; a genre of french secular music
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chanson
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the way words are set to music, in terms of rhythm, accent, etc.
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declamation
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a single two note chord running continuosly
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drone
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a renaissance court dance in triple meter
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galliard
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a simple religious song in several stanzas, for congregational singin in church
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hymn
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any of various lively dances in triple time
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jig
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a medieval secular musician
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Jongleurs(France) or Minstrels(England)
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the main secular vocal genre of the Renaissance
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Madrigal
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the main Roman Catholic service; or the music written for it. The musical mass consists of five main sections: Kyrie,Gloria,Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei
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mass
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any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until 1600
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Medieval Modes
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post composers of the Middle Ages in Germany
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minnesingers
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a sacred vocal composition. Early motets were based on fragments of Gregorian chant.
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motet
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a sign used in the notation of plainsong during the Middle Ages, surviving today in transcriptions of Gregorian chant
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neume
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the earliest genre of medieval polyphonic music
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organum
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the modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early Renaissance music
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paraphrase
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a slow, 16th century court dance in duple meter
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pavane
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unaccompanied, monophonic music, without fixed rhythm or meter
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plainchant or Gregorian chant
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"rebirth" -is the name given to a complex current of thought that worked deep changes in Europe from the 14th - 16th century
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Renaissance
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a song in several stanzas, with the same music sung for each stanzas opposed to through-composed song
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strophic form
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aristocratic poet-musicians of the Middle Ages
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Troubadours(S France) or Trouveres (N France)
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musical illustration of the meaning of a word or a short verbal phrase
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word painting
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Anonymous - "In paradisum"
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Gregorian Antiphon
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Hidegard Of Bingen - "Columba Aspexit"
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Plainchant sequence
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Bernart de Ventadorn - "La dousa votz"
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Troubadour song
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Guillame Dufay - "Ave Maris stella"
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Harmonized hymn
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