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| popular musicians in the MA |
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unaccompanied monophonic music for voices
religious texts being sung at services |
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| the systems by which the gregorian chants were construed |
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| the pitch on which the text is sung |
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| a genre of plainchant, services for the dead, sung in procession on way to graveyard e.g in paradisum |
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| noble poet-composers of the middle ages - worked in the court |
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| earliest type of polyphony - traditional plainchant to which a composer has added another melody in counterpoint |
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| passages of pure vocalism with many notes to a single syllable |
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| writing successive lengthy passages in identical rhythms but with distinct melodies |
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| a certain point in a stanza when there are fast echoes between the soprano and alto |
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