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Cantus Firmus

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Pre-existing melody forming the basis of a polyphonic composition.

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Church Modes

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Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, and Hypodorian, Hypophrygian, Hypolydian, Hypomixolydian

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Consort Music

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William Byrd. Voice or voices accompanied by instruments.

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English School

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William Byrd and Thomas Tallis. They brought continental style of polyphony to England. Both sacred and secular. Virginal. Elizabeth I.

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Franco-Flemish School

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Josquin Desprez. Orlando di Lasso.

Imitative polyphany style.

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Imitative Polyphany

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Polyphany in which a melodic line or idea is echoed by other voices

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Madrigal

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A secular polyphonic vocal composition that originated in Italy spreading throughout Europe with the development of music printing

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Mass Ordinary 5 Texts

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Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei

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Melismatic

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More than one pitch per syllable of text

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Motet

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A 2-3 voice polyphonic composition with a plainchant based cantus firmus, developed by the School of Notre Dame

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Organum

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A second line added to a plainchant in parallel motion a 4th or 5th apart

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Plainchant

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Music of Catholic Church, based on 8 church modes, Nueme notation, melismatic, stepwise motion

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Rhythmic modes

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School of Notre Dame. Set patterns of long and short durations.

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Roman School

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Palestrina and Victoria

Influenced by counter-reformation. Music in the church should be focused more on religious meaning rather than sounding good or being innovative.

Music should flow, stepwise motion, few leaps, leaps should be followed by stepwise motion in opposite direction, mostly oblique and contrary motion

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School of Notre Dame

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Léonin and Perotin

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Text painting

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A musical illustration of the meaning of the text

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Troubadours and Trouvères

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An aristocratic class of men and women who wrote mostly monophonic songs/poems about courtly love, the hunt, and the Crusades

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Ave Generosa

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Hildegard von Bingen, plainchant, high Middle Ages

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Ave Maria, virgo Serena

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Josquin des Prez, motet, Renaissance

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Viderunt Omnes

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Pérotin, organum, high Middle Ages

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Kyrie from Pope of Marcellus Mass

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Palestrina, Mass ordinary, high renaissance

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Puis quen oubli

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Guillaume de Machaut, secular chanson, ars nova

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As vesta was descending

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Thomas Weelkes, madrigal, late renaissance

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