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15 Cards in this Set
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What cultivated, supported, and directed music as it did art, architecture, poetry, and learning during the middle ages?
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the Church
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What were non-church oriented, "popular" musicians called during the middle ages?
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Minstrels
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Who were the only people who wrote music down?
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Monks
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Define singing
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a way of uttering words that sets it apart from ordinary speech
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Define Plainchant
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the official music of the Catholic church in the Middle Ages, a great repertory of melodies designated for the many religious texts to be sung at services- widely known as Gregorian Chant
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Was plainchant, polyphonic, monophonic, homophonic or biophonic?
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monophonic
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What kind of meter was plainchant in?
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it was nonmetrical- having no established meter, and therefor the rhythm was free
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What mode was plainchant in?
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Medieval Modes- not the major or minor system
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What scale was used for plainchants?
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the diatonic scale (all the white keys)
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Define the reciting tone
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the pitch on which the text is sung- it is held except for small, formulaic variations at beginnings and ends of phrases
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Describe "Estampi"
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dances from the same court circles that produced the chivalric repertory
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Describe "organum"
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the earliest type of polyphony, consisting of traditional plainchant melody to which composer/singer/improvisor has added melody in counterpoint, sumg simultaneously to the same words
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Describe Motet
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a sacred vocal composition. Early motets were based on fragments of Gregorian chant- the upper lines were their own words
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What new form of melody and harmony developed out of the late dark ages and the early 14th century?
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Polyphony
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Define "Renaissance"
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the name given to a complex current of thought that worked deep changes in Europe from the 14th-16th century
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