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bard

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Celtic poet-singers who performed at banquets and other occasions. Often accompanied themselves on an instrument such as harp or fiddle. Middle Ages

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Allemande

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Highly stylized dance in binary form, quadruple meter, beginning on an upbeat. Popular during the Renaissance and Baroque; often the first dance in a suite.

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Jongleurs

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lower-class musicians who traveled earning an uncertain living by performing tricks, telling stories and singing or playing instruments. Middle ages

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minstrel

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13th century musician who was typically employed by a court for at least a portion of the year. More specialized than Jongleurs

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troubadours/troubairitz

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12th century poet-composers from Southern France. Used the Occitan language. Bernart de Ventadorn and Comtessa de Dia

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trouveres

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12th century poet-composers from Northern France. Used the Old French language.

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chansonniers

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Songbooks that preserved troubadour poems and songs. 2,600 poems survive - approximately 250 survive with melodies

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contrafactum

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The middle age process of writing new text for an existing melody.

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Minnesinger

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German poet-musicians active from the 12th into the 14th centuries modeled after the French troubadours. Language was Middle High German.

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Stollen / Abgesang

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The sections of a minnelieder. The A section - Stollen - follows the same meter, rhyme scheme and melody. The B section - Abgesang - is longer and may replicate some of the stollen melody.

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carole

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French circle dance from the middle ages, very few melodies survive

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estampie

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medieval instrumental dance with several sections repeated with open and closed endings. French estampies are in triple meter with short sections

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cantata

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By the mid 16th century this term represented a secular composition with continuo for solo voice that had several sections utilizing recitative and arias. Strozzi - Lagrime mie - unrequited love.

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