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cornetto
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bas instrument, woodwind family, hybrid of clarinet and trumpet
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chanson
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french term used broadly to indicate a lyrical song from the middle ages to the 20th century
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gregorian chant
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a large body of unaccompanied monophonic vocal music, set to latin texts, composed for the western church over the course of 15 centuries
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hauts instrument
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loud instruments. trumpets, sackbut, shawm and drums
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melismatic singing
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many musical pitches set to one syllable of text
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ordinary of the mass
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the five sung portions of the mass for which the texts are unvariable. they are sung for every mass
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organum
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the name given to the early polyphony of the western church form the 9th through 13th centuries
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plainsong
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another word for gregorian chant
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proper of the mass
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the sections the Mass that are sung to the texts that vary with each feast day
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quadrivium
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a ciriculum of 4 scientific disciplines taught in medieval schools and universities
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sackbut
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precursor to the trombone. brass family haut instrument
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shawm
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precursor to the oboe. woodwind family haut instrument
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syllabic singing
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one musical pitch set to each syllable of text
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trivium
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a literary curriculum of three disciplines taught in mideval schools and universities
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trobairitz
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female troubadours
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troubadour
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secular poet-musicians from the south of france during the 12-13th centuries
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trouvere
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secular poet-musicians from the south of france during the 13-14th centuries
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minnesinger
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secular poet-musicians from Germany during the 12-14th centuries
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castato
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a boy or adult singer who had been castrated to keep his voice from changing so that it would remain in the soprano register
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council of trent
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a gathering of bishops and cardinals to debate many aspects of church reform
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counter-reformation
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the church's response to the protestant reformation. resulted in the council of trent
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humanism
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the belief that people have the capacity to shape their world, to create many things good and beautiful that they are something more than a mere conduit for gifts descending from heaven
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imitation
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the process by which one or more musical voices, or parts, enter and duplicate exactly for a period of time the music presented by the previous voice
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madrigal
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a popular genre of secular vocal music that originated in italy during the renaissance, in which usually four or five voices sing love poems.
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madrigalism
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a device originating in the madrigal, by which key words in a text spark a particularly expressive musical setting. sad=chromatic descending motion Aris = notes go up
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motet
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a composition for choir or larger chorus setting a religious, devotional or solemn text, often sung a cappella. so voices will still be segregated. text may vary away from biblical verse but the sacred function remains
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sistine chapel
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the pope's private place of devotional worship
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word painting
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the process of depicting the text in music, be it subtly, overtly, or even jokingly, by means of expressive musical devices
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