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Middle Ages (pre-1450)/Renaissance (1450-1600)
Noonkester
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Music
Undergraduate 1
07/08/2009

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Pope Gregory I
Definition
ordained chant as official music of Cath. church
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**Gregorian Chant**
Definition
monophonic vocal muisic; offical music of catholic church until 1950s?
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**church modes**
Definition
scales other than major or minor; different patterns of whole and half steps
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syllabic
Definition
one note per syllable of text
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melismatic
Definition
several notes per syllable of text; 2-5ish
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antiphonal
Definition
choir to choir
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responsorial
Definition
soloist to choir
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direct
Definition
no alternation
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Troubadours
Definition
Southern France
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Trouveres
Definition
Northern France
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organum
Definition
early polyphonic music 2-4 voices
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Leonin
Perotin
Definition
one of the first people to compose organium; both graduated from Notre Dame w/ MA; Notre Dame School
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Ars Antiqua
Definition
old art
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Ars Nova
Definition
new art
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cantus firmus
Definition
fixed melody used as a bases for a polyphonic texture composition
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Mass Ordinary
Definition
Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei
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**humanism**
Definition
focused on hear and now
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printing
Definition
printing started around 1450; made books available to the masses
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**motet**
Definition
polyphonic choral composition set to something other than the mass ordinary; in latin
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Palestrina
Definition
Italian church music composer
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madrigal
Definition
homo or polyphonic composition for several voices set to a short secular poem
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Gesualdo
Definition
murder his wife b/c of affair; composer of madrigals
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Weelkes
Definition
English; text painting in madrigals
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**text painting**
Definition
music representation of a poetic image
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ricercar
Definition
instrumental piece
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Praetorious
Definition
German; composed La Bouree; music theorist
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Venice (St. Mark's)
Definition
Church; Gabrielis worked here as music directors
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Andrea Gabrieli
Definition
uncle Gabeieli
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Definition
nephew Gabrieil
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polychoral motet
Definition
two or more vocal choral piece
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Josquin
Definition
Ave Maria . . . virgo serena
Flemish
points of imatation
dissonance
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Hildegard of Bingen
Definition
German nun
ran a nunnery
composer of the nunnery's music
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Machaut
Definition
French
composed the first complete mass ordinary
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