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Music 313
Beginning of time to the Baroque
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Undergraduate 3
12/12/2007

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Gregorian Chant 
Definition

named after pope gregory

mass

celebration of the holy communioin 

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Mass
Definition

Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, sanctus, agnus dei

example: Missa something by: Dufe 

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St. Agustine
Definition
Patriarch that recognized the power of music
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Charlemagne
Definition
emperor that unified liturgy and music, but also everything
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Neumes
Definition
indicate pitches or groups of pitches in a chant
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divine office
Definition
series of services held at specified times: featured psalm singing
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Proper vs. Ordinary
Definition

Ordinary: everyday

Proper: specific days 

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syllabic, neumatic, melismatic
Definition
one, 2-6, many notes
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responsorial vs. antiphonal
Definition
solo and choir, two groups of performers
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Jubilus
Definition
melismatic ending of alleluia
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psalm tones
Definition
melodic formula used to recite psalms according to eight tones
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antiphon
Definition
plainchant sung before a psalm or chant
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modes
Definition

fanalis: ending pitch in a mode

ambitus: range of a mode

authentic: range is octave above fanalis

plagel: fifth above fourth below
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psalmisation: guidonian hand
Definition
ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la: way to learn psalmisation
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gamut
Definition
entire range of available pitches
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hexachord: hard vs. soft
Definition

hard= B natural

soft= B flat

neutral= no B

W, W, H, W, W 

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Musica Ficta
Definition
performers determine which notes are sharp/flat in performance
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troping: prosula
Definition
adding notes and/or words to existing chant: just text
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liturgical drama, Hildegard Von Bingen, ordo vir tutum
Definition
drama in a mass, first woman to do this, her most famous piece about the devil
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organum
Definition
original plainchant with added voice
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parallel vs. melismatic
Definition
together, one is faster than the other
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St. Martial- Aquitanian Polyphony
Definition
center for the production and collection of medieval chant and polyphony
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Notre Dame organum: measure vs unmeasured
Definition
two voices move about same speed: one holds other melismaticizes
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Leonin and Perotin
Definition

perotin was leonin's student, added triplum and duplum

notre dame 

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magnus liber organi
Definition
great book of organum by leonin and perotin
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rhythmic modes, ligatures
Definition
modes are made from ligatures which are groups of 2+ notes
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Clasula/Substitute clasula
Definition
substitute for part of organum
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motet/polytextual motet
Definition
new text to existing clasula, secular
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conductus
Definition
metered poem used in music
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mensural notation
Definition
notes shapes determined duration
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fraconian vs. petronian
Definition
long notes vs. short notes in mensural notation
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parisian chanson
Definition

french  song lighter and chordal, homorhythmic, vertical sonorities

Sermisy and Janequin were big

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madrigal
Definition
secular vocal composition for multiple voices
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three ladies of ferrara
Definition
group of singers virtuosic
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villanella
Definition
madrigal sub genre less literary and less elaborate
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tenorlied: senfl
Definition
german, tenor song, secular
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meistersinger: sachs
Definition
tradesmen/craftsmen who sang
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villancico: milan
Definition
spanish song at this time
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English Madrigal
Definition
english version, Morley wrote some
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Lute Song: Dowland
Definition
strophic madrical notated for the lute
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reformation
Definition
martin luther brought about the musical aspect of the change
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chorale: walter
Definition
congrational singing of hymns
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anthem- full vs. verse:byrd
Definition
english motets chorus: chorus and solo
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counter-reformation
Definition
council of trent met to revise the catholic church
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palestrina: missa papae marcelli
Definition
accepts thirds and sixths as consonant
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intabulation
Definition
any arrangement of existing music for strings or keyboard
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diferencias
Definition
melody and variations, spanish
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ricercar
Definition
composition seeks out specific mode or theme
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toccata
Definition
freely composed work unrelated to anything else
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fantasia
Definition
free flights of imaginative composition
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dance music: susato and praetorius
Definition
composers of dance music
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syntactic form vs. paratactic form
Definition
central idea is presented and varied: each new section presents a new idea
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mannerism, musica reservata
Definition
term from art history to describe sculpture and painting
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orlande de lassus
Definition
writing in musical mannerism
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