Dance Music Flashcards
What term does “plucked with the fingers or plectrum” refer to?
psaltery
What term does “a bowed string instrument with a body in a figure-eight shape” refer to?
vielle
What term does “Medieval designation for outdoor instruments” refer to?
haut
What term does “one of the earliest Medieval dances” refer to?
estampie
What term does “includes sackbut, shawm” refer to?
haut
What term does “French for “high,” indicating a high level of volume (loud)” refer to?
haut
Eventually, stylized dance music was composed specifically for…
listening only, rather than for dancing
What term does “simultaneous variation involving two or more voices or instruments playing the same melody in more than one way at the same time” refer to?
heterophony
What term does “a stringed instrument with a wooden sound box” refer to?
dulcimer
What term does “stately character, involves elaborate body movements” refer to?
estampie, danced by couples
Estampie 4 uses what form?
sectional structure with open and closed endings
What term does “a reed instrument with a piercing tone; ancestor of the oboe” refer to?
shawm
What term does “one part plays the original melody; the added voices are often improvised” refer to?
heterophony
What term does “ancestor of the violin” refer to?
vielle
What term does “its delicate sound served as an ideal accompaniment to the voice” refer to?
lute
