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1
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Typical medieval voice parts:

A

Triplum / Discantus / Cantus

Duplum / Contratenor (fills in harmony)

Tenor (starting point)

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2
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Typical renaissance voice parts:

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  • Superius
  • Contratenor altus (high contratenor)
  • Tenor (still starting point)
  • Contratenor bassus (low contratenor)
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3
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What was the 14th century known as the age of in music? (Described in a treatise of the same name by Philippe de Vitry)

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Ars nova (New art)

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4
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Cum statua/ Hugo, Hugo/ Magister invidie - composer:

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Philippe de Vitry

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5
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Cum statua/ Hugo, Hugo/ Magister invidie - what is unusual about the tenor?

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It is composed. Usually would be from a plainchant.

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Cum statua/ Hugo, Hugo/ Magister invidie - genre?

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Isorhythmic motet

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7
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Isorhythmic motet was built on the 13th c practice of repeating tenor _______ ________.

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cantus firmus

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Cum statua/ Hugo, Hugo/ Magister invidie - Century?

A

14th c

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9
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Define color

A

sequences of pitches that repeat

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10
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Define talea

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Sequences of durations that repeat

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Messe de Nostre Dame (Kyrie) - composer?

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Guillaume de Machaut

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Messe de Nostre Dame (Kyrie) - Century?

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14th c

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Messe de Nostre Dame (Kyrie) - genre?

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Isorhythmic motet

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14
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What piece is being described?

  • Lyrics: a complaint about society
  • three voices: triplum, duplum, tenor
  • Hocket: two voices alternate in rapid succession
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Cum statua/ Hugo, Hugo/ Magister invidie

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What piece is being described:

  • Tenor cantus firmus drawn from chant Kyrie (Xmas mass)
  • Greater prominence of imperfect consonances (3rd, 6th)
  • Complex rhythms, including syncopation
  • Stratified texture (higher parts are faster and more active than lower parts)
A

Messe de Nostre Dame (Kyrie)

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16
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3 furmes fixes (fixed forms) of monophonic songs:

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  • Rondeau
  • Ballade
  • Virelai
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17
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Rose, liz, printemps, verdure - genre:

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Rondeau

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Rose, liz, printemps, verdure - Century:

19
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Rose, liz, printemps, verdure - composer:

A

Guillaume de Machaut

20
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What piece is being described:

  • Not based on chant
  • Long, decorative melismas on certain words
  • Some imperfect consonances (3rds, 6ths) sweeten the harmony
A

Rose, liz, printemps, verdure

21
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Renaissance years:

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c. 1400 - 1600

22
Q

Humanism

A

Italian movement to revive the culture and values of ancient Greece and Rome

23
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Missa Se la face ay pale - composer:

A

Guillaume Du Fay

24
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Missa Se la face ay pale - century:

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15th c. Renaissance

25
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Missa Se la face ay pale - genre

A

Cantus firmus mass

26
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Missa Se la face ay pale is based on the ______ of a ______ _______ called Se la face ay pale.

A

based on the tenor of a secular ballade

27
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What piece is being described:

  • Medieval characteristics:
  • Stratified texture
  • Bass moves melodically
  • Some complicated, syncopated rhythms Renaissance characteristics:
  • four parts
  • imperfect consonances
  • smoother, melodious upper parts
A

Missa Se la face ay pale

28
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Mille regretz - composer

A

Josquin des Prez

29
Q

Josquin des Prez was a student of…

A

de Ockeghem

30
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Mille regretz - century

A

Late 15th c. Renaissance

31
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Mille regretz - genre

32
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What piece is being described:

  • Not forms fixes but simple 4-line poem, set polyphonically
  • Poignant, simple, direct homophonic textures alternate with touches of polyphony
  • Constantly descending melodic lines - emblem of sadness
A

Mille regretz

33
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What mode is Mille regretz in?

A

E Phrygian

34
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Ave Maria… Virgo serena - composer:

A

Josquin des Prez

35
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Ave Maria… Virgo serena - century:

A

late 15th c. Renaissance

36
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Ave Maria… Virgo serena - genre:

37
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What piece is being described:

  • No cantus firmus - free composition
  • four equal voices main focus: text expression Melody projects, heightens natural, expressive word stress
A

Ave Maria… Virgo serena

38
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Josquin’s 3 types of Masses:

A
  • Older cantus-firmus style stratification
  • Parody Mass
  • Soggetto cavata
39
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Define parody mass

A

All voices based on pre-existing polyphonic composition (usually a motet)

40
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Define Soggetto cavata

A

cantus firmus taken from vowels of a word or phrase

41
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Tant que vivray - genre:

A

Parisian chanson

42
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Define chanson

A

Polyphonic setting of a French, secular poem, freely composed (no cantus firmus)

43
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Tant que vivray - composer:

A

Claudin de Sermisy

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