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16 Cards in this Set
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Minnesinger
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A type of secular poet-musician that flourished in Germany during the 12th-14th centuries
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Proper of the Mass
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The sections of the Mass that are sung to texts that vary with each feast day
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Cornetto
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A woodwind instrument, developed during the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. Sounds like a hybrid of clarinet and trumpet
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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
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Syllabic Singing
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Style of singing in which each syllable of text has one, and only one, note. The opposite of melismatic singing.
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Sackbut
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A brass instrument of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance; the precursor to the trombone
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Trobairitz
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A female troubadour
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Troubadour
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A type of secular poet-musician that flourished in Southern France during the 12th and 13th centuries
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Trouvere
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A type of secular poet-musician that flourished in Northern France during the 13th and early 14th centuries.
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Shawm
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A double-reed woodwind instrument of the late Middle Ages and Renaissance; the precursor to the oboe
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Rondeau
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An ancient musical form in which a refrain alternates with contrasting material
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Gregorian Chant (plainsong)
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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, from the time of the earliest fathers to the Council of Trent
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Chanson
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A French term used broadly to indicate a lyrical song from the Middle Ages into the 20th century
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Mass
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Central religious service of the Roman Catholic Church, one that incorporates singing for spiritual reflection or as accompaniment to sacred acts
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Organum
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The name given to the early polyphony of the Western Church from the ninth through the thirteenth centuries
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7 Liberal Arts
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Seven academic subjects during the Middle Ages (since Plato)
Geometry, astronomy, arithmetic, music, grammar, logic, rhetoric |
