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A POLYPHONIC sacred work in English for Anglican religious services.
anthem
(Italian, "song") (1) Sixteenth-century Italian GENRE, an instrumental work adapted from a CHANSON or composed in a similar style. (2) In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, an instrumental work in several contrasting sections, of which the first and some of the others are in IMITATIVE COUNTERPOINT.
canzona
STROPHIC HYMN in the Lutheran tradition, intended to be sung by the congregation.
chorale
The use of many NOTES from the CHROMATIC SCALE in a passage or piece.
chromaticism
In seventeenth-century music, the combination of voices with one or more instruments, where the instruments do not simply double the voices but play independent parts.
concertato
for a group of instruments, either all of one type (called a full consort), such as a consort of VIOLS, or of different types (called a broken consort).
consort
RENAISSANCE English GENRE of song for voice accompanied by a CONSORT of VIOLS
consort song
Characteristic quality of early-fifteenth-century English music, marked by pervasive CONSONANCE with frequent use of HARMONIC thirds and sixths, often in parallel motion.
contenance angloise
The practice of replacing the text of a vocal work with a new text while the music remains essentially the same; or the resulting piece.
contrafactum
In fourteenth- and fifteenth-century POLYPHONY, voice composed after or in conjunction with the TENOR and in about the same RANGE, helping to form the HARMONIC foundation.
contratenor
Continental style of POLYPHONY in the early RENAISSANCE, in which two voices are written, moving mostly in parallel sixths and ending each PHRASE on an octave, while a third unwritten voice is sung in parallel perfect fourths below the upper voice.
fauxbourdon
A form of BASSO CONTINUO in which the BASS line is supplied with numbers or flat or sharp signs to indicate the appropriate CHORDS to be played.
figured bass
Sixteenth-century GENRE of Italian POLYPHONIC song in mock-popular style, typically SYLLABIC, HOMOPHONIC, and DIATONIC, with the MELODY in the upper voice and marked rhythmic patterns.
frotolla
ANTHEM for unaccompanied CHOIR in CONTRAPUNTAL style.
full anthem
POLYPHONIC MASS in which each MOVEMENT is based on the same polyphonic model, normally a CHANSON or MOTET, and all voices of the model are used in the mass, but none is used as a CANTUS FIRMUS.
imitation mass (parody mass)
Literary text for an OPERA or other musical stage work
libretto
A particularly evocative-or, if used in a disparaging sense, a thoroughly conventional-instance of TEXT DEPICTION or WORD-PAINTING; so called because of the prominent role of word-painting in MADRIGALS.
madrigalism
A CANON in which voices move at different rates of speed by using different MENSURATION SIGNS.
mensuration canon
Metric, rhymed, and STROPHIC vernacular translation of a PSALM, sung to a relatively simple MELODY that repeats for each strophe.
metrical psalm
(1) An accompanied solo song. (2) The musical TEXTURE of solo singing accompanied by one or more instruments.
monody
POLYPHONIC MASS in which the MOVEMENTS are linked primarily by sharing the same opening MOTIVE or PHRASE.
motto mass
The addition of embellishments to a given MELODY, either during performance or as part of the act of COMPOSITION.
ornamentation
POLYPHONIC MASS in which each MOVEMENT is based on the same MONOPHONIC MELODY, normally a CHANT, which is PARAPHRASED in most or all voices rather than being used as a CANTUS FIRMUS in one voice.
paraphrase mass
A manuscript or printed book containing the music for one voice or instrumental part of a POLYPHONIC COMPOSITION (most often, an anthology of pieces); to perform any piece, a complete set of partbooks is needed, so that all the parts are represented.
partbook
Play in verse with incidental music and songs, normally set in idealized rural surroundings, often in ancient times; a source for the earliest OPERA LIBRETTOS.
pastoral drama
A MASS in which each MOVEMENT is based on a CHANT to the same text (the KYRIE is based on a chant Kyrie, the GLORIA on a chant Gloria, and so on).
plainsong mass
Passage in a POLYPHONIC work in which two or more parts enter in IMITATION
point of imitation
ANTHEM in which passages for solo voice(s) with accompaniment alternate with passages for full CHOIR doubled by instruments.
verse anthem