Ancient Music – Flashcards
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A collection of hymns from India
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Samaveda
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A French cave that has red dots on the ceiling of the cave to note these special acoustic spots in the cave.
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Pech Merle
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The addition of a second voice, sung in tandem, to Gregorian chants.
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Organum
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Signs written above the chant words to indicate where the voices should rise and where they should fall in tone.
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Neumes
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A written discourse on the performing arts, including music, dance, stage performances, and so on
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Natya Shastra
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Included poems that were accompanied by instrumental music, often from a lyre
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Lyric poetry
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Refers to a set of fragmentary relics as well as a nearly complete example of notated music from around 1400 BCE.
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Hurrian song
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Lived from 1300 to 1377. Both a poet and composer, he wrote over one hundred songs and was one of the first to write polyphonic music
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Guillaume de Machaut
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Often sung by male choirs and the music is still used for worship today
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Gregorian chants
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Found in Slovenia, it appears to date to about 50,000 years ago
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Divje Babe flute
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Polyphonic music; was similar to an organum, but the speed of the song was quicker
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Conductus
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Also known as plainsong; a type of monophonic sacred music
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Chants
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A musical form that became popular in the late medieval period, it featured multiple voices with a complex rhythm
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Ars Nova
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The use of archaeological techniques in the study of music.
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Archaeomusicology
