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Mass for Christmas Day: Kyrie

Middle Ages

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Composer: Anonymous Monk

Genre: Mass (Plainchant)

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Epitaph of Seklios

Ancient Greek

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Composer: Ancient Greek

Genre: Epitaph

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Ordo Virtutum: In principo omnes

Middle Ages

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Composer: Hildegard of Bingen

Genre: Liturgical Drama

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Can vei la lauzeta mover

Middle Ages

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Composer: Bernart de Ventadorn

Genre: Troubadour Song

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Alleluia Justus ut palma, From Ad organum faciendum

Middle Ages

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Composer: Anonymous Monk

Genre: Organum

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Viderunt Omnes

Middle Ages

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Composer: Perotin

Genre: Organum Quadruplum

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Kyrie, from La Messe de Notre Dame

Middle Ages

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Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

Genre: Mass

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Foy Porter

Middle Ages

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Composer: Guillaume de Machaut

Genre: Rondeau

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Non avrà ma’ pietà

Middle Ages

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Composer: Francesco Landini

Genre: Ballata

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Quam pulchra es

Middle Ages

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Composer: John Dunstable

Genre: Motet

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Ave Maria…Virgo serena

Renaissance

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Composer: Josquin Desprez

Genre: Motet

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Missa Pange lingua, Kyrie

Renaissance

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Composer: Josquin Desprez

Genre: Cantus firmus mass

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Sing Joyfully unto God

Renaissance

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Composer: William Byrd

Genre: Full Anthem (Anglican)

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Agnus Dei 1 from Pope Marcellus Mass
(Missa Papae Marcelli)

(Renaissance)

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Composer: Palestrina

Genre: Catholic Mass

(Counter-Reformation)

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O Magnum Mysterium

Renaissance

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Composer: Tomas Luis de Victoria

Genre: Motet

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II Bianco e Dolce Cigno

Renaissance

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Composer: Jacques Arcadelt

Genre: Madrigal

(Italian)

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Da le Belle Contrade D’Oriente

Renaissance

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Composer: Cipriano de Rore

Genre: Madrigal

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“Io Parto” e non piú dissi

Renaissance

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Composer: Carlo Gesualdo

Genre: Madrigal

(Italian)

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Tant que vivray

Renaissance

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Composer: Claudin de Sermisy

Genre: Chanson

(French Song)

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As Vesta Was Descending

Renaissance

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Composer: Thomas Weelkes

Genre: English Madrigal

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Flow, My Tears

Renaissance

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Composer: John Dowland

Genre: Lute Song

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Dances from Danserye

Renaissance

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Composer: Tielman Susato

Genre: instrumental Dances

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Pavana Lachrymae

Renaissance

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Composer: William Byrd

Genre: Pavane Variations

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Cruda Amarlli

Ren/Baroque

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Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Genre: Madrigal

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Tu sei Morta, from L’Orfeo

Baroque

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Composer: Claudio Monteverdi

Genre: opera (recitative)

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Saul was verfolgst du mich

Baroque

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Composer: Heinrich Schutz

Genre: Sacred Concerto

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Toccata No.3

Baroque

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Composer: Girolamo Frescobaldi

Genre: Toccata

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Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: (“Thy Hand, Belinda”)

Baroque

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Composer: Henry Purcell

Genre: Opera (Recitative)

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Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: Dido’s Lament (“When I am Laid in Earth)

(Baroque)

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Composer: Henry Purcell

Genre: Ground Bass Aria

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Trio Sonata No.3: III. Adagio

Baroque

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Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

Genre: Trio Sonata

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Trio Sonata No.3: IV. Allegro

Baroque

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Composer: Arcangelo Corelli

Genre: Trio Sonata

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Prelude, from Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543

Baroque

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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Genre: Prelude (toccata)

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Fugue, from Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 543

Baroque

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Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach

Genre: Fugue

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Time Periods

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Middle Ages 450-1450

Renaissance 1450-1600

Baroque 1600-1750

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Organum

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Early polyphony, one or more voice parts accompanying the Cantus Firmus often in parallel motion

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Chanson

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A French song

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Madrigal

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A secular song for two or three unaccompanied voices

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Hildegard of Bingen

Middle Ages

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German abbess and mystic who composed Liturgical Dramas

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Guido of Arezzo

Middle Ages

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Italian Theorist. Developed solfege and Guidonian Hand.

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Benart de Ventadorn

Middle Ages

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Troubadour (Poet and Composer)

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Leonín and Perotín

Middle Ages

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Clergymen/Composers who worked at Notre Dame in Paris, and were closely associated with the development of organum.

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Basso Continuo

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An instrumental bass line which runs throughout a piece, over which the player improvises a chordal accompaniment. The bass may be figured.

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Figured Bass

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Is a reference term for the bass part of an ensemble work.

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Aria

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Any closed lyrical piece for solo voice with or without instrumental accompaniment

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Recitative

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A type of vocal writing, normally for a single voice, with the intent of mimicking dramatic speech in song.

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Sequence

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A melodic or polyphonic idea consisting of a short figure or motif stated successively at different pitch levels

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Claudio Monteverdi

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The most important musician in late 16th and early 17th century Italy. His nine books of madrigals consolidated the achievement of the late Renaissance masters.

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Heinrich Schutz

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He was the greatest German composer of the 17th century and the first of international stature.

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Henry Purcell

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17th century English Composer

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Girolamo Frescobaldi

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Italian composer and keyboard virtuoso. He was one of the greatest keyboard composers of the first half of the 17th century.

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Arcangelo Corelli

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Italian composer and violinist.

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Palestrina

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Italian composer know for his strict style of diatonic counterpoint (stile antico) widely accepted for a model for teaching.

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Through-composed

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New music for each stanza

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Humanism

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The study of the linguistic and rhetorical traditions of classical antiquity.

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When and where was the first opera house opened?

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Venice, Italy 1637

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In what city was opera created and by who?

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Florence, Italy by the camerata

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Motet

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Polyphonic music

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Mass

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Catholic Latin Eucharistic service

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