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Medieval: Jongleurs |
Popular musicians and entertainers |
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Liturgy |
A text used in religious church |
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Plainchant or Gregorian chant |
Unaccompanied monophonic music for voices |
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Medieval modes |
One of a system of scales |
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Recitation |
Part of a chant climbs to an upper pitch and stays on that pitch to hear the contact of the text |
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Reciting tone |
The pitch on which the text is sung |
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Antiphon |
Little pieces that can be very moving |
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Melismas |
1 syllable per pitch |
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Sequence |
Type of chant |
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Drone |
Single note helf underneath the melody |
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Troubadours |
South France noble poet composer's |
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Trouveres |
North France.. noble poet composer's |
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Minnesingers |
Germany and did the same as troubadours |
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Alba |
Dawn song .. poetic song |
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Pastourelle |
Collection of pieces |
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Strophic form |
Same music for each stanza |
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Estampies |
Medieval dance tune |
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Organum (C.E 900) |
Earliest type of polyphony one is slow and the other is faster. |
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Motet |
a short piece choral music Midevial polyphonic form only an upper text Gregorian chant on lower parts |
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Round |
Imitative counterpoint |
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Pes |
Type of Motet |
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Ars nova |
After 13th Century, newer music in France |
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Ars antiqua |
Motet continued to develop as an important genre incorporating ars nova ingredients regarded as "ancient art" |
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Isorhythm |
Equal rhythm. Rhythmic patterens repeated over and over. *structural technique for motets.* |
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Chansons |
Polyphonic love songs |
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*Renaissance* |
originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe. b. The period of this revival, roughly the 14th through the 16th century, marking the transition from medieval to modern times. |
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Paraphrase |
Embellished chants with extra notes, set them in graceful rhythms to be herd as a melody |
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Hymn |
Religious work in tunes or chants |
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Chanson |
A French song |
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Mass |
The largest and most important prayer service of the Christian liturgy. |
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Block chord |
A simple chord accompaniment |
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A cappella |
Voices alone |
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Madrigal |
A short composition set to a one stanza poem... topically a love poem Sung by one singer and haves alternating sections of homophony and polyphony. |
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Pavan |
Renaissance dance music |
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Galliard |
A faster dance in triple meter |
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Jig |
Douple meter... Lively music |
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Early Baroque |
1600 century miss shapen pearl from the sea. |
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Basso continuo |
Refers to the bass line and continuous chords of a baroque compositions |
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Ground bass |
Repeated bass figure with chords above the upper lines player different melodies |
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Basso ostinato |
Any short musical gesture repeated over and over again
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Functional harmony |
Tonal harmony based on major and minor keys |
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Opera |
Drama and music |
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Recitative |
Dramatic dialogue Which the rhythm follows the speech and there Is little accompaniment for the soloist |
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Aria |
An extended piece for a solo singer having more musical elaboration and a steadier pauper than racitative. |
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Alba |
Dawn song |
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Arioso |
Chorus in opera An area like fragment is an opera that is neither a recitative nor An aria |
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Suites |
A set of dances collected from an opera or ballet |
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Stylized dances |
Written in the form of dance music but only to be listened to |
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Virtuosity |
Improvised music that was rarely written down |
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Fugue |
One melody imitatively Mainly composed for keyboard players |
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set of Variation |
A key board genre based on melodic or harmonic Patterns borrowed from vocal music |
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Registration |
High and low pitches |
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Toccatas |
Free form instrumental piece with improvisions A key board genre means touched in Italian |
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Canzonas |
Genre of keyboard work that emphasized imitative polyphony |
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Balletto |
Vocal composition |
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Corrente |
a 16th-century court dance consisting of short advances and retreats. |
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Passacaglia |
slow triple time with variations over a ground bass and brief harmonic progression. |
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Ostinato |
a continually repeated musical phrase or rhythm *frescobaldis suites is the same* |
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Ornmanentation |
Improving melodic extras in the music |
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Point of imitation |
Each time the subject starts, another voice comes in. |
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Declamation |
Made sure that words were sung to rhythm and melodies that approximated normal speech. |
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Word painting |
Gives you an oral representation the text is saying. The notes represent the words |