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define madrigal
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Italian secular music during the renaissance that was usually through-composed
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How many voices were in the typical madrigal?
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4-6
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Where and when did consort songs originate?
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England in the renaissance
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What was the instrumentation for consort songs?
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voice accompanied by a consort of viols (string ensemble)
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what does through composed mean?
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new music for every line of poetry
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What is a lute song (or air)?
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a solo song with accompinament
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what part of what century were lute songs prominent?
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early 1600s
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what type of notation was used to write out lute parts?
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tablature
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what is tablature?
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a notational system that tells the player which strings to pluck and where to place the fingers on the strings
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what's a toccata?
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chief form of keyboard music in the improvisatory style during the second half of the 16th century
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who was a middle renaissance french composer of the French chanson?
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Clement Janequin
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Who was a late renaissance composer born in the Netherlands, who mastered every genre, writing over 2000 works, which were published after his death as the "Magnum Opus Musicum"?
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Orlando Di Lasso
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Who was the "height of the Italian madrigal"?
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Luca Marenzio
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Who was a late renaissance italian composer who murdered his wife and her lover, and who used extreme chromaticism, irregular phrasing, and unexpected harmonic turns and cadences?
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Carlo Gesualdo
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What was Musica Transalpina?
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a book of italian madrigals published in England, which influnced the style of the English madrigal for several decades to follow.
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Who was one of the last great Catholic composers in England, who perfected the Consort Song?
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William Byrd
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Who was a late renaissance english composer of secular music, both vocal and instrumental?
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Thomas Weelkes
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Who wrote "A Plaine and Easie Introduction to Practicall Musick"?
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Thomas Morley
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Who was famous for developing the German "Lied" into a distinctive, secular style?
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Heinrich Isaac
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Who was teh Swiss composer who brough German secular music to its peak in the renaissance?
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Ludwig Senfl
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Who wrote "Syntagma Musicum"?
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Michael Praetorius
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What was Syntagma Musicum?
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The most important existing treatise on musical instruments of its time.
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Who's most famous work was called "Terpsichore", a collection of dances for 4-6 instruments?
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Michael Praetorius
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What were the pavane, galliard, courant, allemande, and gavotte?
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renaissance dance music
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