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What replaced isorhythm as chief structural device in large scale vocal works?

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cantus firmus

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Principle genres for sacred vocal music

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Mass and motet

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Head Motif

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a thematic idea in multiple voices placed prominently at the beginning of a setion or movement

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Mass: Missa Se la face ay pale, ca. 1450 (p.66)

How many voices? Tenor lines serves as what?

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> 4 voice mass setting

> tenor line from the chanson serves as cantus firmus

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missa se la face ay pale was first mass based on what? tenor was no longer what?

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> first mass setting based on secular work

> first mass setting in which tenor is not lowest voice

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Cyclic mass

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cycle of all movements of the mass

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Mass ordinary integrated by what?

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cantus firums

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Chanson: se la face ay pale - how many voices? what kind of work?

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3 voice polyphonic secular vocal work

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major composers of The Mass (3)

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Du Fay, Ockeghem, Josquin

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rhythmic device of The Mass?

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mesuration canons

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what begins to replace cantus firmus in The Mass?

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imitation

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Motet is

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prayer text set to music

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Motet is written to fulfill one of three principles:

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  1. liturgical
  2. devotional
  3. occassional
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Chanson moved from what texture to what texture?

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layered to homogenous

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Frottola poetry tended to be what?

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lighthearted and sarcastic

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Frottola texts included…

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freely structured poems

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Portative organ

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portable and smaller

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positive organ

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larger than portative

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Renaissance harpsichord is what kind of keyboard

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single keyboard

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Virginal

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single set of strings

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Spinet

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single keyboard

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Recorders evolved from what

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panpipe instrument

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What are the two principle doulbe-reed instruments?

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shawm and crumhorn

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Brass instruments limited to what kind of harmonics?

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natural

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Percussion instruments included

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drums, cymbals, tambourines, triangles and wooden xylophones

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Most common plucked string instrument

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viol and violin families emerged in what century

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Viols distinguished from violins by 4 characteristics

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sloped shoulders, flat backs, fretted fingerboards and 6 strings

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The parisian chanson became a new genre in what year?

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parisian chanson was lighter and more what?

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chordally oriented

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parisian chanson was dominated by what kind of sonorities? homorhythmic or isorhythmic

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vertical, homorhythmic

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Italian madrigal became genre in what year? What country?

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1530; Italy

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Italian madrigal is for how many voices

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italian madrigal uses mostly sacred or secular text

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is the italian madrigal strophic or through-composed?

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through-composed?

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two most prominent variety of secular song in Germany are

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lied and tenorlied

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secular song in Germany sung by who?

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meistersinger guilds

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principle genre of spanish song in renaissance

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villancico

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secular song in spain poetic form equivalent to what

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french virelai

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music transalpina means what, published when?

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Music from Across the Alps, 1588

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vernacular

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language of country rather than Latin

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chorales

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congregational singing of hymns

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In England, composers began writing motets in what language

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what are the two forms of anthems?

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full and verse

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Full anthem

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chorus throughout

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verse anthem

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alternates chorus with passages for solo voice and instrumental accompaniment

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in music of the counter-reformation, the council declared what?

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sacred music was to serve the text and text should be clear to listeners

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social dance

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a pattern of repeated steps

48
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pavane

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slow, courtly dance in duple meter

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passamezzo

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similar to pavane, lighter step

50
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bouree

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fast dance in duple meter

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saltarello

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fast dance, often follows a slower one

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galliarde

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more vigorous version of saltarello; large leaps by dancers

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volta

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fast turning dance; compound duple meter

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branle

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line dance in duple meter

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with the baroque era came increasing importance in what investigation

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scientific investigation

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culminaton of what in baroque era?

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royal despotism

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What was prized in all the arts? begins with v

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virtuosity

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What’s new? (musical context) (3)

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  • importance of instrumental music
  • opera
  • functional tonality
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Experimentation (musical context) 3

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  • idea that music could not physically move listener
  • full realization of opera
  • composers experimented with creating impressive effects in instrumental music
60
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expanding roles for music (2)

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  • used for important tool for government

- new extravagant styles for religious services

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