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34 Cards in this Set
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Plain chant |
Single line melody Monophonic in texture No harmony or counterpoint |
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Neumes |
Little ascending or descending symbols written above notes to suggest contours of the melody |
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Modes |
Scale patterns |
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Tonal |
Type of scale based tone |
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Offices |
Series of services celebrated In religious communities |
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Proper texts |
Vary from day to day throughout the church year |
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Ordinary texts |
Texts that remain the same in every mass |
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Antiphonal |
Alternating between two groups of singers |
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Polyphony |
Multi voices music |
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Organum |
Earliest Type of polyphony |
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Rhythmic Modes |
Fixed Rhythmic patterns |
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Rhythmic mode |
A Fixed pattern of long and short notes that is repeated or varied, over a sustained bottom voice taken from the chant of the same name |
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Ars Nouva |
New art in French |
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Chansons |
Secular songs |
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Troubadours |
Poet musicians in southern France |
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trouvères |
Poet musicians in northern France |
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Guillaume de Machaut |
Trouvere, bridges music from them to new creative sensibility |
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Writers |
Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Chaucer |
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Poetic forms of Chansons |
Rondeau, Ballade, and virelai |
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Master of Italian Madrigal |
Jacques Arcadelt |
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Italian Madrigal |
A sixteenth century tradition that linked music and lyrical poetry |
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John Farmer |
English Madrigal |
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Word painting |
Making the music directly reflect the meaning of the words. |
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Madrigalism |
A striking effect designed to depict the meaning of the text in vocal music |
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One of the most artful and influential Madrigals in Italy |
Claudio Monteverdi |
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Fixed pre existing melody |
Cantus Firmus |
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Imitation |
A similar phrase is heard in different gestures |
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Motet |
A sacred work with a Latin text |
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One of the great masters of sacred music |
Josquin des Prez |
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Homo rhythmic |
All voices move together rhythmically |
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Kyrie |
A prayer for mercy |
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Gloria |
A joyful prayer |
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Credo |
Confession of faith |
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Sanctus |
A song of praise |
