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Exam 1 - Terms Flashcards

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Antiphon

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more elaborate plainchant with few melismas

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church modes

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a key based off a certain note of modern-day scale, tonality

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imitation

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repeating motif is sung, in repeating rounds, create chords, individual lines

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motet

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songs based on chant fragments, embellished with new ideas

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recitative

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opera, part that is less musical but moves the plot along

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antiphony (texture)

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varying numbers of choirs/location of choirs to create a new texture

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counterpoint

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beginnings of harmony, written with a figured bass

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isorhythm

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rhythmic patterns repeated with different pitches, mathematical

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neumes

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early form of notation, showed rise and fall of the melody

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recitation tone

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chanted notes with small modulations for breath and phrases

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aria

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opera, more melodious and sung, to express a certain feeling

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courtly love

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chivalry, love for the sake of love with no romantic intentions

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jongleurs

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medieval secular musician

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troubadours, trouvères

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aristocratic poet-musicians

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opera

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drama presented in music, tribute to its collaborative nature

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ritornello

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passage of music that returns to a theme already presented

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arioso

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halfway between an aria and recitative

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drone

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one note held in the background of the melody

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liturgy

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The authority that determined standard practices of a religion

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organum

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early form of polyphony, added counterpoint

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round

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quick turn over of ideas, repeating, staggered, folksy

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Ars Nova

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“new art” formed in the late Medieval times, lead to the Renaissance

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Estampie

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one line piece with repeated stanzas with variations

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madrigal

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very experimental music, more mathematical than musical

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ornamentation

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improv, adding your own fluff to the music

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sequence (chant)

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sequence sung by a soloist, then repeated by the choir

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Baroque

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time period, term applied to large, irregular shaped pearls, over the top

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figured bass

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notation that corresponds to chords based on certain scale, played in the bass

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Mass Ordinary

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everyday mass

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Mass Proper

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the mass that changed day to day, special occasions

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paraphrase (music)

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Using basic idea of a song, change awkward parts, add embellishment

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syllabic setting

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how each syllable was presented

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cantus firmus

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part of the music that was not changed, usually based on a plainchant

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Pavan

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solemn dance of early renaissance, stepping and stopping formally

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Galliard

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faster dance in triple meter, late renaissance

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trio sonata

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written for a bass coninuo, and a duo of instruments

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canzona

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instrumental piece for secular musicians

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ground bass

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bass notes doubled by two instruments

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melisma

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Variations on one syllable

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plainchant

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earliest form of Medieval music, no fixed meter, one note with small variations

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castrato

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member of the choir who was castrated as a boy, so his voice remained high

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Guidonian hand

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uses a hand as a teaching tool for pitches (early solfège)

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Monody

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single soloist with accompaniment

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polychoral motet

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done with multiple choirs, instruments, may have soloists

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choir schools

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schools meant to train boys to sing in the cathedrals

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homophony

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involves one line of interest, combined with chords

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monophony

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only one line of music is sung

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word painting

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singing words by what is inferred by the word (up is sang high)

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chaconne / ciaconna

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form of a sonata, ground becomes chord progression, bass line varies

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