Music 101 Test 1

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Loud or soft

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Dynamics

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Speed

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Tempo

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Stressed or unstressed words

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Meter

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The sonorous quality of a particular instrument, voice or combination

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tone color

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Chants used by the early Roman Catholics

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Gregorian Chants

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Unaccompanied, monophonic music, without fixed rhythm or meter

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Plainchant

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A way of reciting words to music, generally monophonic

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Chant

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A musical texture involving a single melodic line

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monophony

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without a distinct meter

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nonmetrical

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In music since the Renaissance, one of the two types of tonality, major or minor, one of several orientations of the diatonic scale.

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Medieval modes

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"Chant" with only one note

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Recitation

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A genre of plainchant usually showing a simple melodic style with very few melismas

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Antiphon

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Compiled Gregorian chants, added her own style (1098-1179)

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Hildegard of Bingen

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A type of plainchant in which successive phrases of text receive nearly identical melodic treatment

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sequence

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Continuous note held throughout a song

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drone

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a musical texture that involves only one melody of real interest

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homophony

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musical texture inwhich two or more melodic lines are played or sung simultaneously

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polyphony

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the earliest genre of medieval polyphonic music

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organum

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In vocal music, a passage of many notes sung to a single syllable

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melisma

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(usually) a sacred vocal composition. Early versions were based on fragments of Gregorian chant, two or more lines of text muddling together

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Motet

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in 14th century music, the technique of repeating the identical rhythm of each section for a composition, while the pitches are altered

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Isorhythm

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Songs written by aristocratic poet - musicians of the Middle Ages

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Troubadour Songs

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A song in several stanzas, with the same music sung for each stanza

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Strophic

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"making it up as you go"

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improvisation

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dance music of the middle ages

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estampie

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motets not intended for church service

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secular motets

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the alteration of very short melodic phrases, or single notes, between two or more voices

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hocket

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The main Roman Catholic service, or the music written for it, Sections: Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei

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mass

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The modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early Renaissance music

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paraphrase technique

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Mixed Homophony and Polyphony

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High Renaissance style

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Only vocals, no accompaniment

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A Cappella

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(1525-1594) Wrote church music, included larger choirs and more tone color

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Palestrina

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The way words are set to music. Follows natural speech patterns.

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Declamation

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Musical illustration of the meaning of a word or short verbal phrase

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Word painting

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The main secular vocal genre of the Renaissance

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Italian Madrigal

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Madrigal in English

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English Madrigal

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The combination of qualities that make a period of art, a composer, a group of works, or an individual work distinctive

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Stylization