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Pope Gregory

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Gregorian chant

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Chant

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Plainchant, music of early Christian church

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Melisma

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Notes set to a single syllable

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Troubadours

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Poor musicians in southern France

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Organum

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Plain chant was decorated with one or more simultaneous interweaving musical

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Hildegard of bingen

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The daughter of a noble couple who promised her, as their 10th child, to service the church as a tithe

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A Capella

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Choral music performed without instrumental accompaniment

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Motet

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Single Latin text

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Word painting

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Musical pictorialization of words as an expressive device feature of Renaissance

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Mass

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Central service of the Roman Catholic Church

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Council of Trent

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Long meeting with the church

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Opera

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Music drama that is sung throughout

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Libretto

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Text and scripture of opera and musical

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Aria

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Lyric song for solo voice with orchestral accompaniment, intense emotion, opera

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Da capo aria

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Lyric song in ternary, a-b-a opera

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Recitative

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Solo vocal declamation that focuses the inflections of the text, resulting in a distjunct vocal style

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Overture

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Introductory movement, as in a opera or oratorio orchestra work for concert performance

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Church cantata

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Of Johann Sebastian Bach were mostly written for the Lutheran church service

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Oratorio

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One of the great baroque sacred vocal forms, decended of the counter reformation

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Chorale

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Congregational hymn of the German Lutheran church

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Terraced dynamics

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Volume levels shift abruptly between soft and loud

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Concerto grosso

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Baroque concerto type based on the opposition btw a small group of solo instruments

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Dance suite

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Dance peices in the same key

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Fugue

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Polyphonic form popular in the baroque era, one or more themes are developed by imitative counterpoint

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Program music

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Instrumental music endowed with literary or pictorial associations

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Embellishments/ornaments

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Melodic decoration, either improvised or indicated through ornamentation signs in the music

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Prelude/ toccata

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Instrumental work proceeding a larger work

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Kyrie

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Lord, have mercy

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Gloria

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Glory to God

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Credo

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I believe..

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Sanctus

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Holy, holy, holy

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Agnus Dei

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Lamb of god

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Dona nobis pacem

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Grant US peace

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Dido and Aeneas

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Pope Marcellus mass

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Giovanni Palestrina

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Orfeo

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Claudio monteverdi

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The Brandenburg concerti

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The four seasons

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Antonio Vivaldi

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Messiah

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George Fredrick Handel

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Water music

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George Handel

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Machaut

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Wrote the first complete polyphonic setting of the ordinary of the mass

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Joaquin

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Renaissance composer who became popular due to printed music

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Palestrina

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Composer of Catholic Church music who wrote over 100 settings of the mass

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Monteverdi

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Italian composer of motels, madrigals, and the first real opera

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Purcell

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Greatest English composer of the baroque era

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Vivaldi

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Italian priest, violinist, and educater who wrote over 450 concerti

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JS Bach

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Church organist choir master in Germany who wrote over 200 church cantatas as well as instrumental music and choral works

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Handel

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German musician who traveled to Italy and England, writing over 40 Italian operas before turning to oratorio

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