Middle Ages and Renaissance Music 101 – Flashcards
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Renaissance
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15th and 16th centuries in Europe
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Humanism
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The dominant intellectual movement in the renaissance Focused on human life and accomplishments
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Church Modes
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Scales found in Gregorian Chant The basic scales of western music during the middle ages and renaissance
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Drone
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Consists of one or more long, sustained tones accompanying a melody
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Ars Nova
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Music was so profound that theorists refered to italian and french music to new art
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Mass Ordinary
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Texts that remain the same from day to day throughout the chuch year
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Word painting
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Musical depiction of soecific words
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Cappella
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Unaccompanied choral music Renaissance chiral music did nig need instrumental accompainment Known as golden age
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Lute
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Plucked stringed instrument with a body shape of half a pear
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Gregorian Chant
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Melody set to sacred latin texts and sung without accompaniment
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Estampie
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Single melodic line is notated and no instrument is specified
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Organum
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Midevil music that consists of gregorian chant and one or more additional melodic lones
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Rondeau
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Main poetic and musical forms in 14th and 15th century france
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Motet
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Polyphonic choral work set to a sacred latin text other than the ordinary mass
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Mass
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Polyphonic choral composition made up of 5 sections -kyrie -gloria -credo -sanctus -agnus dei
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Madrigal
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Piece for several solo voices set to a short poem usually about love
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Instrumental music
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Instruments accompanied voices or played music intended for singing
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Featured Composers
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Hildegard of Bingen Guillaume de Machaut Josquin Desprez Giovanni Palestrina Thomas Weelkes John Dowland Pierre Caroubel
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What mood does Gregorian Chant convey?
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Calm Otherworldly Spiritual
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Medieval composers were relatively _________ in expressing the emotions of a text
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Uniterested
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Gregorian Chant rhythm is
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Flexible No meter Little beat
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Notre Dame composers developed the 1st instances of
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Western notation that indicated soecific pitches, measured rhythms, definite time values
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Dances have what kind of beat?
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Clearly defined
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Ars nova can be divided how may times ?
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2 or 3
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Syncopation
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Important rhythmic practice
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Vocal or instrumental music is accompanied by ___________.
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Drone
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Medieval composers based original compositions on _______.
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Chant melodies
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Chant Melodies move by _______.
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Step within a narrow range
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Music is based on
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Church modes
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Western music has what texture ?
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Monophonic
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Organum is important because it is
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The 2nd line added to gregorian chant
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I'm 12000 composers wrote polyphonic music in ______.
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3 and 4 voice parts
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Music manuscripts do not indicate
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Tempo, dynamics, or instrument names
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Music passed down by _____.
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Oral tradition and memory
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Musicians worked for
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Churches Courts Towns
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Center is musical life and education in the Middle Ages
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Churches and cathedrals
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Vocal music was more important than
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Instrumental music
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Women were not permitted to sing in church but they could make music in
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Convents, they could recieve musical training here
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Music that was danced and flourished
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Secular
