Exploring Music Quiz 3 Flashcards
unaccompanied monophonic music for voices
Plainchant
Is reputed to have assembled/standardized all the chants required for the church services of his time
Pope Gregory the Great
two characteristics of plainchant
Non-Metrical- no established meter
Medieval modes - not the major/minor system
poet composers in the south of France
troubadours
poet composers in the north of France
Trouveres
poet composers in Germany
minnesingers
Musicians were called ___ and often followed the Trouveres
Jonleurs
all the stanzas have the same melody (Form AAA)
strophic
earliest type of polyphony, consists of traditional plainchant melody, to which another melody counterpoint is added and sung simultaneously to the same words
Organum
Polyphonic music gradually distanced itself from the ___
church
new polyphony developed where upper line was called ___
motet
new art technique
ars nova
Parts of the mass
Kyrie gloria credo santus agnus dei
What unaccompanied music becomes popular
A cappella
Words sung to rhythms and melodies that approximated normal speech
Declamation
Matching the music to the meanung of the words
Word painting
Why did the pope Marcellus mass differ from others
It showed that polyphonic music could still make the words stand out
A short composition set to a one stanza poem normally a love poem
Madrigal
Around 1500 hardly any music was written for ____
Instruments
Duple meter dance
Pavan
Faster triple meeter dance
Gallard
Less formal dance in England scotland and Ireland
Jig
How was dance written
In easliy fillowed phrases such as A A B B
