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| a medievil secular musician |
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| the systems of prayers and worship of a particular religion |
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| unaccompanied,monophonic music, without fixed rhythm or meter such as gregorian chant |
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| types of tonality-major mode and minor |
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| especially in chant, the single note used for musical "resitation", with brief melodic formulas for beginning and ending. |
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| the type of chant used in the early roman catholic church |
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| A genre of plain chant usually in a simple melodic style with very few melismas |
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| in vocal music, a passage of many notes sung to a single syllable |
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| in a melody, a series of fragments identical except for their placement at succesively higher or lower pitch levels. |
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| aristocratic, poet-musicians of the middle ages. |
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| poet-composers of the middle ages in germany |
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| troubadour song about a knight leaving his lady at dawn |
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| an instrumental dance of the middle ages |
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| the earliest genre of medieval polyphonic music |
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| a sacred vocal composition. early motets were based on fragments of gregorian chant. |
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| in 14th ventury music, the technique of repeating the identical rhythm for each section of a composition, while the pitches are altered |
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| French for song; a genre of french secular vocal music. |
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| the modification and decoration of plainchant melodies in early renaissance music. |
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| A simple religous song in several stanzas, for congregational singing in church. |
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| the main roman catholic service; or the music written for it. the musical mass consists of five large sections, kyrie,gloria,credo,sanctus,and agnus dei |
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| A short passage of imitative polyphony based on a single theme, or on two used together. |
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| the way words are set to music, in terms of rhythm, accent,etc. |
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| musical illustration of the meaning of a word or a short verbal phrase. |
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| the main secular vocal genre of the renaissance |
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| A slow, 16th-century court dance in duple meter |
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| A reinassance court dance in triple meter |
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| The instrument playing the continuo, usually cello plus harpsicord or organ |
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| from the baroque period on, the system whereby all chords hav a specifix interrelation and function in relation to the tonic |
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| drama presented in music, with the characters singing instead of speaking |
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| a half-singing, half reciting style of presenting words in opera,cantata,oratorio,etc., following speech accents and speech rhythms closely. secco recitative is accompanied only by continuo; accompanied recitative is accompanied by orchestra |
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| a vocal n umber for solo singer and orchestra, generally in an opera,cantana,or oratorio |
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| A Piece consisting of a series of dances. |
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| A composition written systematically in imitative polyphony,usually witha single main theme,the fugue subject. |
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| sectional pieces in which each section repeats certain musical elements while others change around them. |
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| especiallyin baroque music,a written-outcomposition in improvisational style, generally for organ or harpsichord. |
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| A lively,fugue-like composition, one of severaly sixteenth=and seventeenth-century genres of instrumental music |
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| A set of veriations on a short theme in the bass |
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