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| The feeling of centrality of one note to a passage of music. |
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| A collection of pitches chosen for a particular piece. |
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| A sequence of notes that form a unit in music, each leading sensibly to the next. |
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| A musical texture describing two or more simultaneous melodic lines using the same or quite similar melodies, but with staggered entrances. |
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| Refers to pieces constructed with a voice comprised of a color and a talea. |
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| Not characterized by rhythmic beat patterns. |
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| A polyphonic, secular composition with at least one Latin text. |
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| A decorative phrase or passage in vocal music, in which one syllable of text is sung to a melodic sequence of several notes. |
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Directed a codification of Christian practices, so they would be brought to universal conformity.
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| Earliest type of polyphony, consisting of a plainchant melody with one of more additional melodic lines sung simultaneously to the same words. |
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| Main intellectual outlook that fueled the Renaissance period. |
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| Composer whose compositional style was stimulated by the action of the "Council of Trent" and the atmosphere fo the Counter-Reformation |
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| Has lines that are parallel at the 4th and 5th intervals. |
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| Has one voice held constant and other voices free to move independently. |
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| A writer or singer of lyric verses about courtly love who entertained the upper classes in parts of Europe during the 11th to 13th centuries. |
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| When words are set in music by incorporating rhythms and melodies that approximate normal speech patters |
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| Scales organized around other pitches, different from the modern major or minor scales used today. |
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| Book about the donkey Fauvel with magical power to grant wishes when anyone combs or curries his coat. |
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| Alleluia from the Mass for Christmas Day |
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| Medieval, sacred, monophonic |
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| Medieval, polyphonic, conductus, sacred |
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| Bernart de Ventadorn: Can vei la lauzeta mover |
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| Philippe de Vitry: Garrit Gallus/Nova Fert |
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| Medieval, secular but alludes to the Bible, isorhythmic motet |
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| Palestrina: Pope Marcellus Mass, Agnus Dei |
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| Giaches de Wert: Vezzosi augelli |
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| Renaissance, madrigal, secular |
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| Elaborates a piece of music by repetition of a single formal section. |
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